On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 14:13:53 GMT, Jatin Bhateja <jbhat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I must be missing something. How is the brute force loop aligned if not by >> this directive? I don't see an alignment anywhere else that could force it. >> After the entry(), there are pushes and length comparisons followed by the >> conditional on VBMI. The only thing I can guess would be that the jmp >> aligns, but I see no indication that that occurs. >> >> Perhaps what you missed was that L_forceLoop is aligned (line 6288). This >> is not the same label as L_bruteForce, which is a jump target from within >> the VBMI conditional (which should be aligned)? Otherwise, I don't see how >> L_bruteForce could possibly already be aligned. > > Yes, I meant force loop already has alignment so earlier one can be removed. Sorry - still confused. These are two different labels, bound to two different locations. I believe the alignments for both are justified. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4368
