[8u] RFR: JDK-8253036: Support building the Zero assembler port on AArch64

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/23/20 8:39 PM, Volker Simonis wrote:

>> Unless a warning reveals a real bug or risky code, the code shouldn't be
>> changed.
> 
> Unfortunately, for a "relatively new" platform like aarch64 we'll have
> to use a "newer" compiler if we want to make full use of its features
> (see [1] for example).

Forgive my fit of giggles at the thought of "relatively new".

> As long as the new compiler is just emitting additional warnings, we
> can still build by ignoring the warnings (although that's not nice
> either). If the newer compiler has turned warnings into errors,

I don't think there are many of those, and I would not object to fixing
them, even in update releases.

> there's no other way than fixing the code and if these fixes have
> already been done in a later version I'd rather downport them instead
> of fixing them manually in 8u.
> 
> All that said, I'd actually only wanted to know:
>  - what's the current status of the aarch64 port integration into 8u

Sure. I think Andrew Hughes is looking at it.

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