[RFR] jdk9.0.4+12 + functionality

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/11/2018 05:41 PM, Andrey Petushkov wrote:
>> Mainstream
>> OpenJDK has an ARM 32 port.  What is going on?  

> OpenJDK has as well ARM 64 port but this fact does not prevent you
> from supporting your own Aarch64 one :)

It's not "my own" AArch64 port, it's the OpenJDK AArch64 port, and
it's supported by a bunch of people.  The fact that there are two
AArch64 ports is very unfortunate, and not an error we should
seek to perpetuate further.

> Well, yes, it’s possible. The problem is that our work are based on
> Aarch32 jdk8u port and in order to apply it to Arm32 port one first
> need to convert Arm32 port code into Aarch32 port code. I can
> generate such a diff but I doubt anyone would want to look and apply
> it, especially into mainline

I don't think we should do that.  Instead, we should look at what
features are missing and work back from there.

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Andrew Haley
Java Platform Lead Engineer
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