RFC: Removal of the ARM assembler port in Icedtea6, unbreaks Zero and Shark builds.

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 13:07 Mon 11 Jul     , Xerxes Rånby wrote:
> Hi team.
> 
> The ARM assembler port that have been broken and unmaintained for about
> a year are currently preventing Zero and Shark from building when using
> the new Hotspot in OpenJDK b23.
> 
> The attached patch fixes Zero and Shark builds by removing the ARM
> assembler port from the icedtea6 tree.
> 
> I will also remove the following files:
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/asm_helper.cpp
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/bytecodes_arm.def
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/cppInterpreter_arm.S
> arm_port/hotspot/src/cpu/zero/vm/thumb2.cpp
> arm_port/hotspot/tools/mkbc.c
> patches/arm.patch
> 
> Ok to push?
> 
> Cheers
> Xerxes

Missed this in my initial review; you don't update NEWS.
Please do so.  This is more important than the numerous
minor JamVM changes which were all meticulously documented.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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