6800154: Add comments to long_by_long_mulhi() for better understandability
Summary: This patch adds a comment pointing to the Hacker's Delight version of the algorithm plus a verbatim copy of it. Furthermore it adds inline comments.
Reviewed-by: kvn, jrose
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private:
void pd_initialize() {}
public:
void flush_bundle(bool start_new_bundle) {}
// Heuristic for pre-packing the pt/pn bit of a predicted branch.
bool is_backward_branch(Label& L) {
return L.is_bound() && code_end() <= locator_address(L.loc());
}