RFR: AARCH64: Top-level JDK changes

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Fri Nov 7 18:21:31 UTC 2014


> On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 11/07/2014 05:42 PM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> The first patch: top-level build machinery changes.
>>>> 
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8064357-rev-1/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8064357-rev-1/>
>>> 
>>> common/autoconf/flags.m4
>>> 
>>> +    aarch64)
>>> +      ZERO_ARCHFLAG=""
>>> +      ;;
>>> 
>>> Why is this required on aarch64 but not all the other architectures?
>> 
>> I think it's because GCC rejects "-m64”.
> 
> That’s interesting.  I thought -m<archbits> is some kind of common flag that works on all architectures.  Can someone verify this?

This page doesn’t list it (while x86, SPARC, and PowerPC pages do):

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AArch64-Options.html <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/AArch64-Options.html>

I guess it’s good then.

> 
>> 
>> Andrew.



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