Template interpreter status in JDK7/IcedTea 2.5.2 for PPC64/PPC64LE

[Tiago Stürmer Daitx]

All-

What's the status of the template interpreter for JDK7 in the
ppc-aix-port?

I can see that JDK 9 does build with the Template Interpreter for both
PPC64 and PPC64LE, but JDK7 seems to be still using the C++ Interpreter
on both archs - at least when build from IcedTea 2.5.2, which supposedly
merged the head from PPC-AIX-Port repo (I haven't build JDK 7 directly
from the PPC-AIX-Port repo to compare the results... yet).

What am I missing? How should/can I be sure to enable the template
interpreter in a  JDK7 build?

I used 

$ nm -C libjvm.so | grep TemplateTable::initialize
$ nm -C libjvm.so | grep CppInterpreter::initialize

to identify which interpreter was build (stolen from [1]), let me know
if there an easier way to do that.

Regards,
Tiago

[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2013-October/011431.html


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Tiago Stürmer Daitx
Linux Technology Center [LTC|IBM]
tdaitx at br.ibm.com