[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: Backports from jdk9 to jdk8

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/29/2015 03:10 PM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> Icedtea7 builds quite happily without including this hunk. Am I correct
> in believing that it is not needed because it refers to an upstream
> change which has not been pulled down into Icedtea7/JDK7?

Either that or the problem has been fixed in a different way.

In general: if a subclass overrides an overloaded method we need a
using clause in the subclass.  Stick to that rule and some very odd
things may not happen.

In this case, call_VM_leaf_base is an overloaded method and is
overridden in interp_masm, so we should have the using clause for
robustness even though it's not yet needed.

Does that make sense?

Andrew.