ARM: Support for OpenJDK 7 [resend]

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 03/21/2012 11:03 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On 03/20/2012 10:54 AM, Chris Phillips wrote:
> >>> These changes look good and are running well as merged into
> >>> icedtea7-forest-release-2.1
> >>> using the patch set you provided.
> >>> Have "self" built x64, x64-zero and arm-zero w/asm jit with the
> >>> fixes.
> >>
> >> Pushed, thanks.
> > 
> > Is there a reason the assembly code is called
> > src/cpu/zero/vm/cppInterpreter_arm.S
> > rather than src/cpu/zero/vm/cppInterpreter_arm.s?
> 
> Yes.  .S files are source that must be preprocessed.

Ah, ok.

> 
> > If you did the latter, the divergence
> > in vm.make would be unnecessary.
> > 
> > Is there any progress on getting the gcc.make changes upstream?
> 
> I haven't yet had time.  I need to collect together everything for
> upstream and start doing builds for up-to-date HotSpot.  However,
> AIUI
> Zero doesn't build on up-to-date HotSpot, and I think we should get
> it
> working and then push the fixes.  I don't think there's anything to
> be
> gained by pushing fixes to old HotSpot branches upstream.
> 

Ok, I just thought it might be a simple fix which could easily go upstream
and reduce divergence, whereas a larger 'fix Zero' patch would take
longer to review.

I presume the one you want to get in sync with is http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-main/hotspot/

> Andrew.
> 

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