RFR: 143072: [JVMCI] Port JVMCI to AArch64

[Doug Simon]

> On 17 Nov 2015, at 21:39, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 12:22 AM, Doug Simon <doug.simon at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Andrew,
>> 
>>> On 16 Nov 2015, at 21:17, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 11/16/2015 07:07 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>>>> How well tested are the CodeInstaller bits, if at all?
>>> 
>>> I ran the tests; to the extent that the tests test them, they are
>>> tested; that is all.
>> 
>> Don’t forget that you can use Graal to test these changes by following the instructions at https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/GRAAL-56. You just need to apply your changes to the hotspot repo before the ‘mx build’ step.
> 
> But this is AArch64.  Is it possible to run some Graal tests without having an AArch64 backend?

Excellent point! Sorry for the noise ;-)

-Doug