Review Request: Zero and Shark fixes

[Christian Thalinger]

On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 11:52 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This webrev contains a number of fixes for Zero and Shark:
> 
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-shark-fixes-01/

6977640: Zero and Shark fixes

> 
> Firstly, the two bugs 6953477 and 6730276 required changes
> to be made to Zero. Secondly, an assertion that is invalid
> on Shark was removed, which allows debug builds of Shark to
> be built on ia32.

Hmm.  Two questions:

1. Why does the assert not hold?
2. Why would anyone build Shark on x86?

-- Christian