Review Request: 6812511: Allow Interpreter-only builds

[Gary Benson]

Ah, thank you.

Cheers,
Gary

Martin Buchholz wrote:
> [+build-dev]
> 
> Not that it matters much, but build-dev is a better list for this
> patch than core-libs-dev.
> 
> Martin
> 
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 09:14, Gary Benson <gbenson at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a patch that's been sitting in the bug databases for a while:
> >
> >  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100011
> >  http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6812511
> >
> > It allows HotSpot to be built interpreter-only, which is required
> > for the Zero assembler port.  It touches both the hotspot and the
> > jdk forests, so it may need approval from someone in both teams.
> > Christian Thalinger (twisti) said that someone (Kelly?) told him
> > verbally it was fine to commit a while back, but it was a month
> > or so ago and can't remember exactly what was said.  I have push
> > access (I think -- I've not tried it out yet!) but I don't want
> > to commit it while it's ambiguous like this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gary
> >
> > --
> > http://gbenson.net/