HotSpot 16

[Matthias Klose]

On 13.01.2010 22:37, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> I've now bumped IcedTea6 HEAD and 1.7 to build the latest hs16 (b13)
> as I believe is used in the proprietary JDK 6 update 18.
>
> I've confirmed that both normal and Zero builds complete.  Shark also
> builds but can't bootstrap itself; see
> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=430  As both
> Shark and hs16 are experimental, I don't think that's a release
> stopper.

so update hotspot two days before a planned release and then declare the 
regressions as non-stoppers?

the shark build fails for me as well when using the new hotspot as bootstrap 
compiler (on ix86 configuring --with-additional-vms=shark), so this is also seen 
with other bootstrap compilers.