[8u] Request for Approval: 8154210: Zero: Better byte behaviour

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 09:52 +0100, Seán Coffey wrote:
> Looks like the JDK 9 master record needs a noreg- label. Please add one 
> : http://openjdk.java.net/guide/changePlanning.html#noreg
> 
> Approved.

Thanks, Sean. I've added a noreq-hard label.

How is the push process for this going to work? Will this be handled by
the bulk-backport-hotspot-changes-to-jdk8-process or are we good to
push to the jdk8u dev tree?

Cheers,
Severin

> Regards,
> Sean.
> 
> On 25/04/2016 09:45, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Please approve the following Zero-only change for jdk8u. The current
> > tree for JDK 8 is broken for a Zero JVM build[1]. The failure is caused
> > by the April CPU patches.
> > 
> > The fix for this went into 9 already[2] and the JDK 8 is essentially
> > the same patch. Only whitespace differences make the JDK 9 patch not
> > apply.
> > 
> > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154210
> > webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8154210/webrev.jdk8.01/
> > HG exported changeset:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8154210/JDK-8154210-better-byte-heviour-zero.jdk8.export.patch
> > 
> > Review thread for JDK 9:
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2016-April/022824.html
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Severin
> > 
> > [1] http://builder.classpath.org/jenkins/job/OpenJDK8_jdk8u_Zero/61/console
> > [2] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/3d7d041acb59