[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8248817: Windows: Improving common cross-platform code

[Andrew Haley]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 09:29:37 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Changing so much x86 code in an Windows aarch64 preparation change is not so nice, but it's better than integrating half changes IMHO.

Understood, but one of the main reasons new ports are easily accepted into maintenance releases of OpenJDK is that they are pure additions, so there's little churn to existing code. Backports should be minimal, in order to minimize that churn, and I don't believe this one is.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk11u-dev/pull/300