Cardmarking writebarrier.

src/arm/macro-assembler-arm.h

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   // Check if object is in new space.
   // scratch can be object itself, but it will be clobbered.
   void InNewSpace(Register object,
                   Register scratch,
                   Condition cc,  // eq for new space, ne otherwise
                   Label* branch);
 
 
-  // Set the remebered set bit for an offset into an
-  // object. RecordWriteHelper only works if the object is not in new
-  // space.
+  // For the page containing |object| mark the region covering [object+offset]
+  // dirty. The object address must be in the first 8K of an allocated page.
   void RecordWriteHelper(Register object, Register offset, Register scracth);
 
-  // Sets the remembered set bit for [address+offset], where address is the
-  // address of the heap object 'object'.  The address must be in the first 8K
-  // of an allocated page. The 'scratch' register is used in the
-  // implementation and all 3 registers are clobbered by the operation, as
-  // well as the ip register.
+  // For the page containing |object| mark the region covering [object+offset]
+  // dirty. The object address must be in the first 8K of an allocated page.
+  // The 'scratch' register is used in the implementation and all 3 registers
+  // are clobbered by the operation, as well as the ip register.
   void RecordWrite(Register object, Register offset, Register scratch);
 
   // Push two registers.  Pushes leftmost register first (to highest address).
   void Push(Register src1, Register src2, Condition cond = al) {
     ASSERT(!src1.is(src2));
     if (src1.code() > src2.code()) {
       stm(db_w, sp, src1.bit() | src2.bit(), cond);
     } else {
       str(src1, MemOperand(sp, 4, NegPreIndex), cond);
       str(src2, MemOperand(sp, 4, NegPreIndex), cond);
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 #define __FILE_LINE__ __FILE__ ":" CODE_COVERAGE_TOSTRING(__LINE__)
 #define ACCESS_MASM(masm) masm->stop(__FILE_LINE__); masm->
 #else
 #define ACCESS_MASM(masm) masm->
 #endif
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_ARM_MACRO_ASSEMBLER_ARM_H_