Suppress error warning in HotSpot backports

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.

A mix of them all, I think.

So, if someone needs a change backported from HotSpot in 9 to HotSpot
in 8 and/or 7, what is the current process?

> 
> David
> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Volker
> >>>
> >>>> regards,
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Andrew Dinn
> >>>> -----------
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew :)
> >>
> >> Free Java Software Engineer
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> 

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