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

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 26/07/2019 09:26, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 25/07/2019 18:52, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>> On 7/25/19 2:25 PM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>>> On 24/07/2019 21:06, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>> (n.b. that diff against upstream jvm.cpp includes an unrelated
>>> difference -- I assume that is unrelated to this change)
>>
>> Can you be more specific? There are Shenandoah-related changes -- they are expected there:
>>   https://builds.shipilev.net/patch-openjdk-jdk8-aarch64/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jvm.cpp.sdiff.html
> Ah ok, no problem then. I just was not sure why they were in the diff.
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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I was wondering the other day whether the SIM still worked, when
backporting some changes to the AArch64 port on 7.

These are the kind of unnecessary changes I'd like to see rooted out
before it goes into 8u, so happy with both these changes.
-- 
Andrew :)

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