RFR: 143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64

[Roland Schatz]

On 12/02/2015 12:33 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 02/12/15 11:23, Roland Schatz wrote:
>> Perhaps we should have a series of test analogous to the
>> test/compiler/jvmci/errors tests, but for "working" instead of "broken"
>> code installation. For that we would need a platform dependent "fake"
>> compiler (e.g. handwritten assembly for well-known test methods).
> Maybe.  But if there is no way to actually exercise the code which
> is in HotSpot, why is it there?
It's an interface for compilers. You can exercise the code, you just 
have to write a compiler ;)
For example, the Graal compiler is using that interface. But there is no 
(working) aarch64 backend for Graal.

For the tests, I can only answer for the tests that I wrote, that is the 
test/compiler/jvmci/error/* tests. They are explicitly disabled on aarch64.
I agree we should have more tests.

- Roland

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> Andrew.
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