Request for reviews (XS): 6831323: Use v8plus as minimum required hardware for current Hotspot sources

[Tom Rodriguez]

looks good.

tom

On Apr 16, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:

>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/6831323/webrev.00
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> Fixed 6831323: Use v8plus as minimum required hardware for current  
> Hotspot sources
>
> Problem:
> Current Hotspot sources use v8plus instructions
> so it can't be compiled with -xarch=v8.
>
> Solution:
> Use -xarch=v8plus as default for 32-bits VM.
> I also fixed the compiler version warning when
> building VM for jdk 1.6 with SS11 compilers.
>
> This fix is also going into HS15.
>
> Reviewed by:
>
> Fix verified (y/n): y, build C1 on sparc with SS11
>
> Other testing:
> JPRT