RFR: 8073139 PPC64: User-visible arch directory and os.arch value on ppc64le cause issues with Java tooling

[David Holmes]

On 4/12/2015 4:29 AM, Alexander Smundak wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 10:30 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>> agent code:
>>
>> I'm still unclear why you can't, or shouldn't, pass through -Dppc64 and
>> -Dppc64le, such that you don't need to check for either being defined ??
> You mean, add -Dppc64 to the compilation flags explicitly if the value
> of the OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_LEGACY is 'ppc64le'?

Yes. Is that feasible?

Thanks,
David

> Sasha
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