need advice on module structure for ISA-specific sources and classes

[John Rose]

On Sep 9, 2014, at 1:47 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

>> In the build system, we define two variables for each target platform, 
>> OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_ARCH and OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU, where the latter implies 
>> a specific address size as well. I would very much appreciate if the 
>> names used for the new directories match these variables (for example, 
>> the values for OPENJDK_TARGET_CPU_ARCH are: x86, arm, ppc, s390 and 
>> sparc), since that will allow us to keep consistency of the names in the 
>> build, and to do the directory matching without any name translations. 
> 
> John -- can this set of CPU names be made work for libffi?

Checking with Wayne and Charlie...

Thanks!

— John