RFR (M): 8036767 PPC64: Support for little endian execution model

[David Holmes]

On 21/03/2014 11:59 AM, Alexander Smundak wrote:
> I've revised the patch to have fold little endian and big endian
> PowerPC64 architectures.

The build changes look much cleaner to me - thanks.

> The patch for the hotspot repository is at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/asmundak/8036767/hotspot/webrev.01
> Top-level build's OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_ENDIAN variable is carried over
> to the Hotspot build as ZERO_ENDIANNESS, so the patch takes advantage
> of this to set target-dependend compiler flags in
> make/linux/makefiles/ppc64.make.

Why are you not using OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_ENDIAN directly? Ah! Because it 
doesn't reach down into the <arch>.make files. ZERO_ENDIANNESS does but 
seems inappropriate if this is not Zero specific. (I'm also not seeing 
how ZERO_ENDIANNESS reaches down that far either ??).

> The accompanying patches for the other repositories are at:
> top-level: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/asmundak/8036767/webrev.01

Seems ok.

> jdk: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/asmundak/8036767/jdk/webrev.01

This change:

-      LDFLAGS_SUFFIX := $(ALSA_LIBS) -ljava -ljvm, \
+      LDFLAGS_SUFFIX := $(ALSA_LIBS) $(LIBDL) $(LIBM) -lpthread -ljava 
-ljvm, \

seems unrelated to endianness. Why is it needed, and why is it being 
applied to all platforms?

Thanks,
David