RFR (M): 8036767 PPC64: Support for little endian execution model

[David Holmes]

Hi Tiago,

Please email me the tar files and I will host it for you.

Thanks,
David

On 19/02/2015 1:02 PM, Tiago Sturmer Daitx wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 07:33 -0500, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>> I now have these changes working on 8u31:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/root
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/rh1191652/jdk
>>
>> I can re-base these onto whichever OpenJDK 9 tree is appropriate and push when
>> reviewed under the same bug as used for the HotSpot side.
>
> Concurrently to Andrew I also worked on a fix for JDK9 and came up with
> a somewhat different approach (based on jdk9/dev):
>
> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/webrev.00/hotspot/
> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/webrev.00/root
>
> To make it easy I already rebased Andrew's JDK8u31 patches to jdk9/dev
> (due to that the webrev ended up with my username).
>
> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/ahughes-webrev.00/hotspot/
> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/ahughes-webrev.00/jdk
> http://tdaitx.github.com/openjdk-webrev/rh1191652-jdk9/ahughes-webrev.00/root
>
> I tested both approaches by building Hadoop (which triggered some
> interesting bugs on various projects due to Jigsaw).
>
> Sorry for the github links, but I don't have an account at
> cr.openjdk.java.net that I can use. I can provide tar files if anyone is
> willing to host those webrevs.
>
> Regards,
> Tiago Daitx
>