[MERGE FOR REVIEW] HotSpot 23.25-b01 Merge

[Andrew Haley]

On 09/12/2013 10:15 PM, Alex Kasko wrote:
> On 09/12/2013 09:20 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>
> Tried it on windows-i586 - I propose this patch [1] (alt link [2], 
> description [3]) to be included.
> 
> I'm not sure whether it will be enough (patched build is in progress 
> now), but windows build will definitely fail without this patch due to 
> VS2003 limitations.
> 
> 
> [1] 
> https://bitbucket.org/alexkasko/openjdk-icedtea6/commits/3602db05977bd874fe1180c81d2bb7ff07795918
> [2] 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/attachments/20130722/c4aa5743/0004-hostspot-SIZE_MAX-and-varmacro-patch-0001.patch
> [3] 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-July/024037.html

Thanks.

I don't have any objection to Windows-specific changes, but unless we
have a Windows maintainer the Windows port will inevitably bitrot.

Andrew.