RFR: 143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64

[Andrew Haley]

On 21/12/15 06:42, Christian Thalinger wrote:
> Alright, here is what I would like to integrate:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~twisti/8143072/webrev.01/
> 
> There are not many source changes but I wanted to send a webrev
> anyway.
> 
> You will notice that the test changes are gone.  That’s because of
> the unfortunate situation with the open and closed AArch64 port.
> Before I haven’t found a way to reuse the open AArch64 JVMCI changes
> with our closed port I can’t enable the tests on AArch64 because we
> would see all of them fail.  And I really want to avoid to copy the
> files verbatim into our closed port.

Needs must, I guess.  It's a silly situation, but we are where we are.
:-)

I kinda assumed that the proprietary AArch64 port had a different name
internally, ARM64 or something.  We are going to have to fix this
somehow.

Andrew.