Request for approval: Backport of 6781583 to hs14/OpenJDK6

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/6/9 Paul Hohensee <Paul.Hohensee at sun.com>:
> There seems to be some confusion here.
>

Clearly, because what I believe we asked for was a stability branch
and that was the point of going through this whole process for over
three months.  Why setup a forest unless it will be updated?

> 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.

I'm not asking you to apply it.  I'm suggesting that I do.

It was never intended to be the basis for another
> openjdk
> version of hotspot.

The entire __point__ of making hs14 available was to use it in
OpenJDK6, at least from the point of view of IcedTea developers.

  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.

So you want us to create a fork?  How does that help us all work together?

> 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)

Why?

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.
>>
>



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