graal and jdk8

[Venkatachalam, Vasanth]

Hi,

I noticed that I had to use a JDK7 VM to build Graal.
I wasn't able to build it with JDK8. Is there a workaround for this, or does Graal require a JDK7 host VM?

If Graal only supports JDK7, are there plans to make it compatible with JDK8?
We're looking to leverage Graal for the Sumatra project (http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sumatra/)
This work requires being able to compile JDK8 lambda constructs for the GPU.

Vasanth