RFR: 143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/12/15 12:09, Roland Schatz wrote:
> 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 ;)

Sure, but I don't see why we can't have a tiny compiler in the test
suite.

Andrew.