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

[David Holmes]

Apologies to Tiago as there were two webrevs and one got stripped from 
the email. Here's Tiago's webrev:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/rh1191652-jdk9/webrev.00/

David

On 19/02/2015 2:22 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Now hosted at:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/ahughes-rh1191652-jdk9-webrev/
>
> David
>
> On 19/02/2015 1:35 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> 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
>>>