[aarch64-port-dev ] [11u] RFR 8228400: Remove built-in AArch64 simulator

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 8/1/19 7:54 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Anyway, I have formally requested the backport of JDK-8228400 with
>> jdk11u-fix-request. If you still feel it should not be in 11u,
>> please formally reject it with jdk11u-fix-no. I would then give up
>> here, and move on backporting this removal to 8u-aarch64.
> 
> I'll think some more. I can see both sides of this, and I guess the
> builtin sim is a special case. I am certainly not going to treat this
> as a precedent for future cleanups.

Right.

8u-aarch64 and 14 have the simulator removed at this point.
Have you decided what would you like to do with 11u?

There is one little cleanup that follows this removal:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8228725
 (it could have been in this change, but alas)

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Thanks,
-Aleksey