RFR: Add support for ARMv6 to ARM JIT

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/02/15 02:16, Edward Nevill wrote:
>>
>> You're more than welcome to commit this. Now would be a good time
>> to do so while things are still relatively quiet, before our
>> next release cycle in April.
>>
>> I've opened a bug to track this:
>>
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2228
>>
>> If you include the text 'PR2228' in the commit message when pushing
>> to http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea7-forest/hotspot, the commit
>> will be recorded on the bug.
>
> Thanks. I will do so next week. I am at a conference this week.
> 
> Was there a consensus on the which of the following routes we take.
> 
> 1) Add arm32JIT.cpp and keep thumb2.cpp
> 
> 2) Add arm32JIT.cpp and delete thumb2.cpp
> 
> (or maybe just call it armJIT.cpp since it supports both 16/32 bit)
> 
> 3) Replace the existing thumb2.cpp with the arm32JIT.cpp
> 
> (in this case the name is a misnomer).
> 
> I have no strong feelings on any of the above 3.

Yes.  Everyone likes 2) .

Andrew.