Request to commit: to icedtea6-1.7 release

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/12/2010 10:12 AM, Edward Nevill wrote:

> Matthias has reported problems with JTreg failing with "Unimplemented opcode = 230".
> 
> I have been unable to replicate the problem locally.
> 
> Opcode 230 is 'dmac', double multiply and accumulate. This is an optimisation for dmul, followed by dadd.
> 
> I propose for the 1.7 release simply removing this opcode altogether. I will leave it in the trunk for the moment until we can work out exactly what it going on with this opccode.
> 
> I am currently doing a complete rebuild with this change applied. I will not know the results until tomorrow.
> 
> Attached are the diffs. OK to commit? Should I commit it now or wait for the results of the rebuild tomorrow morning?

This is all a bit weird.  But if you're sure it won't break anything...

Andrew.