RFR: 143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64

[Christian Thalinger]

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 2:22 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Wow.  This is getting crazy now :-)

Anyway, let’s push what we have now and wait for the AArch64 backend to be functional.  Then we can fix the CodeInstaller methods.

> 
> Andrew.
>