Request for approval: Backport of 6781583 to hs14/OpenJDK6

[Paul Hohensee]

There seems to be some confusion here.

hs14 is the version of hotspot that shipped with 6u14 and as such, is 
frozen.
We do not intend to apply or allow any further bug fixes to it, 
including the
one you propose here.  It was never intended to be the basis for another 
openjdk
version of hotspot.  Ongoing hotspot development goes forward only in the
openjdk hotspot repo, which is currently labeled hs16.  Of course, 
anyone may
feel free to clone hs14 if they like, and apply what fixes they will to 
said clone.
One of those clones could easily be jdk6 open, but that's not our (the 
hotspot
group's) decision to make.

The next jdk6 update release will include a new version of hotspot, based
either on hs14 (in which case it'll be an SSR, we'll likely call it 
hs14.1, and this
fix will be off limits) or the current openjdk hotspot repo (in which 
case it
will be a limited update, it'll likely be hs16, and the fix is already 
in it).  The
going-forward release is hs16.  hs14 is a dead end.

Paul

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/6/8 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org>:
>   
>> The following webrev:
>>
>> http://fuseyism.com/6781583/webrev.00/
>>
>> is backported from OpenJDK7.  It allows hs14 to be built using GCC 4.3
>> and above.  Otherwise, the build fails.  IcedTea has been applying an
>> equivalent fix as three separately developed patches, two of which
>> have been there pretty much since its inception in the summer of 2007.
>>
>> Ok to commit?
>> --
>> Andrew :-)
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>
> It's in the webrev, but to be explicit: this is for the new hs14 tree.
>