RFInclusion into Icedtea6 1.7.1 Thumb2 JIT and ARM ASM bugfixes

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 26 February 2010 15:30, Xerxes Rånby <xerxes at zafena.se> wrote:
> Hi i suggest that we should add the ARM Thumb2 JIT and ARM ASM bugfixes
> into the Icedtea6 1.7.1 release
>
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/748156804502 - Make Thumb2
> JIT the default build
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/ba5d4644582d - Several bug
> fixes to compiling methods with exception handlers
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/ab2479dd2f87 - Various bug
> fixes
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/59e6d2d51c8e - Add
> ports/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/thumb2.cpp missed out in last commit
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/b227a81ef16c - Added Thumb2
> JIT + general tidying up
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6/rev/be36bffde64d - Fix build
> for hs16. Add implementation of is_allocatable
>
> Ok to merge into Icedtea6 1.7.1?
>
> Icedtea6 1.7 contains one fix that cant be found in the Icedtea6 trunk
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.7/rev/06d8ceaf70ff
> Would this changeset cause any issues?
> Should this changeset be transplanted to the Icedtea6 main branch?
>
> Cheers
> Xerxes
>

I think we should let this soak on trunk and release it in 1.8 rather
than trying to backport it.  The minor releases are only for bug
fixes.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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