s390x port progress: patch queue for hotspot assembled.

[Schmidt, Lutz]

>From a daily work perspective, I would really like to keep the
platform-specific file names. Thus, I am in favor of Andrew¹s idea, at
least until somebody comes up with an even better Solution.

Lutz.

P.S.: As I didn¹t appear much on the OpenJDK lists so far, here is some
very brief background info about me: long-time SAP employee, 10+ years
SAPJVM, mainframe exposure 30+ years, office distance to Goetz < 10ft, to
Volker < 30ft. 




On 04.07.16, 09:48, "hotspot-dev on behalf of Andrew Haley"
<hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net on behalf of aph at redhat.com> wrote:

>On 04/07/16 08:35, David Holmes wrote:
>>> An obvious solution to this problem would be to simply remove the
>>> > os/arch parts from the corresponding filenames (they are encoded in
>>> > the directory path anyway) and only use the correct include path for
>>> > every platform while building (I think we already do that). E.g.
>> I'm sure that was proposed originally but rejected for some reason ...
>> 
>> Need to do some archaeology :)
>
>I would think it better to leave the filenames as they are but add
>"assembler_cpu.hpp" to the target CPU directory.  And then
>"assembler_cpu.hpp" includes, say, "assembler_aarch64.hpp".  That's a
>much less intrusive change, and doesn't end up confusing any debugging
>and searching tools.
>
>Andrew.