[RFR]: Add alpha detection to platform.m4

[David Holmes]

Okay I have filed:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8186313

to cover the addition of alpha, mips*, m68k and sh* platforms.

Build folk still need to approve.

Thanks,
David

PS. I'll respond on each thread for completeness.

On 16/08/2017 11:45 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 08/16/2017 03:37 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>> Zero itself is not exactly well maintained, and maybe accepting these
>> trivial patches causes Debian developers to adopt Zero more. This would
>> be a good thing.
> 
> Yes, this is basically my main intention. Upstreaming all these tiny 
> patches
> means that they don't have to be carried around in Debian anymore and they
> become available to every other distribution who wants to use Zero on the
> non-Hotspot platforms.
> 
> Zero receives extensive testing within Debian as people on platforms like
> MIPS*, ARMv4T and similar depend on it as their only implementation of
> the JVM.
> 
> Adrian
>