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

[Andrew Haley]

On 16/09/2020 16:24, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
 > On 9/16/20 5:10 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
 >> On 12:22 Wed 16 Sep     , Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
 >>> On 9/16/20 8:27 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
 >>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8253036
 >>>> Webrev: https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk8/8253036/webrev.01/
 >>>
 >>> That's it, no more changes required for Zero?
 >>
 >> I was surprised too. It seems some required configure/JDK changes got
 >> integrated into 8u already.
 >
 > Okay, looks fine for me then!
 >
 > I have also ran bootcycle-images with this patch on AArch64 without problems.

I wouldn't bet on the atomics being correct. It'd be nice to have a
jcstress run. Not that we expect anyone to actually use zero on
AArch64, but it'd be a very useful sanity check.

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