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  2. JDK-8303827

C2 SuperWord: allow more fine grained alignment for +AlignVector

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      Platforms with alignment requirement do not need to have alignment modulo vector_width, that is too restrictive. It prevents vectorization of some simple conversion tests. Platforms often only require 4-byte or 8-byte alignment.

      This is more relevant after JDK-8298935 (where we disable "resurrecting" rejected memops). This prevents certain conversion-tests to fail under +AlignVector. For example some tests in TestVectorizeTypeConversion.java.

            epeter Emanuel Peter
            epeter Emanuel Peter
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