[aarch64-port-dev ] Built-in simulator

[Andrew Dinn]

On 18/07/2019 13:55, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> I am looking through differences between AArch64 and upstream. One thing that sticks out in the
> existence of built-in simulator: BUILTIN_SIM macro and friends protect lots of code. I wonder if
> this is the leftover of the era when AArch64 was not available in silica?
> 
> Is built-in simulator still useful? If not, should we remove it to reduce the codebase? It is
> present in all JDK releases, including 11 and 13. We could start there, and backport all the way
> down to 8u.
Yes, that code was only ever present to allow us to simulate AArch64
execution before hardware was available and cna all be removed now.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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