[9] RFR(M) 8166416: [AOT] Integrate JDK build changes and launcher 'jaotc' for AOT compiler

[Vladimir Kozlov]

Thank you, Mandy

On 10/28/16 1:31 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
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>> On Oct 26, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kvn/aot/hs.make.webrev/
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> make/gensrc/Gensrc-jdk.vm.compiler.gmk
>    This generates module-info.java.extra at build time to augment module-info.java with `uses` and `provides`.  module-info.java.extra is expected to be checked in the source.
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>    Do you expect the list of `uses` and `provides` are often changed?

Yes, Graal code changes frequently and  we need to run annotation processor to generate these dependencies for each jdk.vm.compiler (Graal) module build.

> The alternative is to declare `uses` and `provides` in module-info.java in the source repo so that a reader can see the module descriptor content without needing to do a build.  A test to detect if the module-info.java is out-of-sync with the annotated options.  In addition a make target to generate the list of `use` and `provides` can be used to generate module-info.java to be included in any change in the annotated options list.

What is "a reader"? And how to check "out-of-sync" without running 'processor'?

Sorry, I am not familiar with all this modules build process.

Thanks,
Vladimir

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> Mandy
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