RFR: AARCH64: Top-level JDK changes

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2014-11-10 18:45, Omair Majid wrote:
> * Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> [2014-11-07 13:11]:
>>> 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:
>>>> 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?
> I had to do a similar fix for zero on arm32:
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/rev/1dfcc874461e#l2.7
>
> Perhaps that can be re-used here?

That's a good point. $COMPILER_TARGET_BITS_FLAG is used in several 
places. All of them ought to be guarded by tests on 
$COMPILER_SUPPORTS_TARGET_BITS_FLAG, but I don't think they are. But 
this sounds like such a situation -- what we should be testing for is 
not so much the platform as if $COMPILER_TARGET_BITS_FLAG is supported.

/Magnus