Suppress error warning in HotSpot backports

[David Holmes]

On 20/03/2014 8:01 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>> ----- 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.)
>>
>
> You're right. The current plan is that jdk8 remains on hs25. But the
> hsx repositories as well. They'll be only used for collecting jdk8
> fixes. The current HS development happens in jdk9/hs-{comp,gc,runtime}
> and there's no plan to downport that to hsx (i.e. the hsx project has
> been disconnected)

This discussion has confused me as I'm unclear if it is about repos, 
version numbering, or actual contents - or all of the above.

Most HS development is happening in 9 and some of that will be 
backported to 8u. Mostly bug fixes but also some feature work.

David

>>> Regards,
>>> Volker
>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Andrew Dinn
>>>> -----------
>>>>
>>>
>>
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