[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: Bulk integration of Shenandoah 2018-05-15

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/13/2018 04:02 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:

> Clearly though, you want them for Shenandoah earlier than that. In
> this case, add them to aarch64/jdk8u and then merge that into the
> Shenandoah tree, rather than applying directly to Shenandoah. That
> way, all three trees (the two aarch64 project ones and the
> Shenandoah project one) have these fixes.

Mmm, but that's when *I* start to get nervous about the divergence
between what we ship as JDK 8 to everyone and OpenJDK 8 upstream.  Of
course there's and inevitable tension, but we must be very careful not
to break any production systems.

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Andrew Haley
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