RFR: 143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64

[Christian Thalinger]

Quick update on this one.  I am trying to get the AArch64 Graal port building using your patch.  I had to make smaller changes to your code and once I have it working I will push this to hs-comp.

> On Dec 2, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 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.

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