Review request: Zero assembler port

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/7/15 John Coomes <John.Coomes at sun.com>:
> Gary Benson (gbenson at redhat.com) wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Zero is an interpreter-only port of HotSpot that uses no assembler and
>> can trivially be built on any Linux system.  The following webrev adds
>> Zero support to OpenJDK:
>>
>>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbenson/zero-03/
>> ...
>
> I started to take a look, but there's something strange with the
> webrev.  A dozen or more files have 0 lines changed, and some other
> files are listed because you are not in sync with the parent repo.
>
> The latter is easy to fix; compare against a parent repo that you
> control and make sure you're completely up to date.
>
> Not sure about the former.  Looks like all the files with 0 lines
> changed show "rev 831" while the others show rev 830.  Maybe comparing
> against your own parent repo will fix those also.
>
> -John
>
>

Hi John,

I also noticed that the patch didn't apply cleanly when I tried it.
On Gary's behalf, here's an alternate webrev against OpenJDK7 b64 that
doesn't seem to have these issues:

http://fuseyism.com/zero/webrev.01/

(sniff, cr is still not working for me it seems...)
-- 
Andrew :-)

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