RFR: JDK-8202384: Introduce altserver jvm variant with speculative execution disabled

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 06/01/2018 10:53 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> This patch defines flags for disabling speculative execution for GCC and Visual Studio and applies
> them to all binaries except libjvm when available in the compiler. It defines a new jvm feature
> no-speculative-cti, which is used to control whether to use the flags for libjvm. It also defines a
> new jvm variant "altserver" which is the same as server, but with this new feature added.

I think the classic name for such product configuration is "hardened", no?

-Aleksey