8068054: AARCH64: Assembler interpreter, shared runtime

[Christian Thalinger]

> On Jan 6, 2015, at 1:14 AM, Andrew Dinn <adinn at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06/01/15 08:56, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> On 05/01/15 23:51, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 2, 2015, at 6:20 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/aarch64-8068054-1/
>>> 
>>> Sorry if this was discussed somewhere else but is BUILTIN_SIM something that’s still used?
>> 
>> Not in this version.  I did consider stripping it all out, but decided
>> on balance that it would be better to keep it.  I could easily be
>> persuaded to remove it.  :-)
> 
> Well, perhaps. I am not convinced that is a good idea just yet.
> Debugging with the AArch64 simulator is still far easier than debugging
> native code. Now, if we had proper symbol table support for C1/C2
> generated code that would be different . . .

No strong opinion here.  We can keep it.

> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Andrew Dinn
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