[MERGE FOR REVIEW] HotSpot 23.25-b01 Merge

[Alex Kasko]

On 09/13/2013 12:49 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.
I can try to maintain windows builds. I guess there won't be a lot of 
changes in jdk6 and most of backported changes have been already well 
tested in jdk7u.

I'll send patches for current build in separate email thread.

>
> Andrew.
>


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Regards,
Alex Kasko