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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, 2015, 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.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+package org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.sparc;
+
+import org.graalvm.compiler.core.common.spi.ForeignCallsProvider;
+import org.graalvm.compiler.graph.Node;
+import org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.HotSpotGraalRuntimeProvider;
+import org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.meta.DefaultHotSpotLoweringProvider;
+import org.graalvm.compiler.hotspot.meta.HotSpotRegistersProvider;
+import org.graalvm.compiler.nodes.calc.FloatConvertNode;
+import org.graalvm.compiler.nodes.spi.LoweringTool;
+
+import jdk.vm.ci.code.TargetDescription;
+import jdk.vm.ci.hotspot.HotSpotConstantReflectionProvider;
+import jdk.vm.ci.meta.MetaAccessProvider;
+
+public class SPARCHotSpotLoweringProvider extends DefaultHotSpotLoweringProvider {
+
+    public SPARCHotSpotLoweringProvider(HotSpotGraalRuntimeProvider runtime, MetaAccessProvider metaAccess, ForeignCallsProvider foreignCalls, HotSpotRegistersProvider registers,
+                    HotSpotConstantReflectionProvider constantReflection, TargetDescription target) {
+        super(runtime, metaAccess, foreignCalls, registers, constantReflection, target);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void lower(Node n, LoweringTool tool) {
+        if (n instanceof FloatConvertNode) {
+            // FloatConvertNodes are handled in SPARCLIRGenerator.emitConvert
+        } else {
+            super.lower(n, tool);
+        }
+    }
+}