*** old/src/share/vm/opto/callnode.hpp	Wed Feb 29 09:34:17 2012
--- new/src/share/vm/opto/callnode.hpp	Wed Feb 29 09:34:16 2012

*** 1,7 ****
--- 1,7 ----
  /*
!  * Copyright (c) 1997, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
!  * Copyright (c) 1997, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
   * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
   *
   * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
   * published by the Free Software Foundation.

*** 544,553 ****
--- 544,559 ----
    bool                has_non_debug_use(Node *n);
    // Returns the unique CheckCastPP of a call
    // or result projection is there are several CheckCastPP
    // or returns NULL if there is no one.
    Node *result_cast();
+   // Does this node returns pointer?
+   bool returns_pointer() const {
+     const TypeTuple *r = tf()->range();
+     return (r->cnt() > TypeFunc::Parms &&
+             r->field_at(TypeFunc::Parms)->isa_ptr());
+   }
  
    // Collect all the interesting edges from a call for use in
    // replacing the call by something else.  Used by macro expansion
    // and the late inlining support.
    void extract_projections(CallProjections* projs, bool separate_io_proj);