RTC Thumb2 JIT enhancements

[Edward Nevill]

Hi Xerxes,

Unfortunately, the patches are not ready for inclusion. On further
testing I have found that it does not build itself and I am unwilling to
push anything which does not build itself.

Regards,
Ed.

On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 15:01 +0100, Xerxes Rånby wrote:

> A bit strange to have them left in limbo.. surely they are designed and
> tested to work with the openjdk used in 1.7.x but they are also too new
> to be included in that release branch since icedtea6 1.7.x only accepts
> bugfixes and no new features....
> The new icedtea6 1.8 release using openjdk b18 that will branch any time
> now from icedtea6 trunk do already contain the first implementation of
> the t2jit and does also full bootstrap compile and runs with these four
> new patches applied when I tested it.
> 
> If we do not include these new t2 fixes for the 1.8 branch then we have
> to play catchup with the upcoming openjdk b19 and potentially with a new
> hotspot hs17.
> 
> Both icedtea6 1.7.x and icedtea6 1.8 uses the same hotspot, hs16, so
> they should both be ok I think.
> 
> With all this said I think the patches looks great, they apply build and
> run using icedtea6 trunk, and I am in favour for them to go in so that
> they can be included in the next 1.8 release.
> 
> Cheers
> Xerxes