Suppress error warning in HotSpot backports
Andrew Hughes
gnu.andrew at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 00:09:20 UTC 2014
----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Andrew Dinn <adinn at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 19/03/14 06:13, Volker Simonis wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>> But this is Java 7.
> >>
> >>
> >> Yes, but with HS25 which makes it behave exactly like Java 8 in this
> >> respect!
> >
> > The JVM in use for our AArch64 JDK7 is the one we built for JDK8. So,
> > strictly, it is derived from the jdk8 tree, not the HS25 tree. That
> > probably explains most clearly why it behaves like jdk8 :-)
> >
>
> That's no difference.
>
> The flow of HS changes until the jdk8 release was:
>
> hsx/hotspot-{gc,rt,comp,emb} -> hsx/hotspot-main -> hsx/hsx25 -> jdk8
>
> After the release it probably will be:
>
> hsx/hotspot-main -> jdk8u-dev -> jdk8uXX
>
> The current contents of hsx/hotspot-main/hotspot, hsx/hsx25/hotspot
> and jdk8/hotspot are all equal and contain HS 25.0-b70.
>
Hmm.. but I thought jdk8 would *always* be hs25 now. This seems to suggest
that jdk8 is always getting the latest HotSpot development (i.e. same as 9 etc.)
> Regards,
> Volker
>
> > regards,
> >
> >
> > Andrew Dinn
> > -----------
> >
>
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