[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR (S) 8228593: Revert explicit JDK 7 support additions

[Andrew Dinn]

On 24/07/2019 21:06, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
> This is 8-aarch64 specific issue:
>   https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8228593
> 
> It does not look these changes are needed anymore: they apparently were used for JDK 7 support.
> These changes show up as the differences against 8u upstream:
>   https://builds.shipilev.net/patch-openjdk-jdk8-aarch64/hotspot/make/linux/makefiles/vm.make.sdiff.html
> 
> https://builds.shipilev.net/patch-openjdk-jdk8-aarch64/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile/classFileParser.cpp.sdiff.html
>   https://builds.shipilev.net/patch-openjdk-jdk8-aarch64/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jvm.cpp.sdiff.html
> 
> Webrev:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~shade/8228593/webrev.01/
> 
> Testing: x86_64 builds, hotspot_gc_shenandoah (no, really, one of these days we would have tier1)
The webrev looks good.

(n.b. that diff against upstream jvm.cpp includes an unrelated
difference -- I assume that is unrelated to this change)

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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