review request (L): 6939861: JVM should handle more conversion operations

[Christian Thalinger]

On May 6, 2011, at 9:27 AM, John Rose wrote:
>> All new header files have the wrong (Sun) copyright header.
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> I'm backing off from introducing new header files.  The only new file is methodHandles_x86.hpp.
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> See what you think.  The idea is to allow each port to control its own individual future relative to this refactoring.  The logic is toward the bottom of this diff:
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>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6939861/webrev.05/src/share/vm/prims/methodHandles.hpp.udiff.html
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> Also, this new webrev is relative to hotspot-comp, not bsd-port:
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>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/6939861/webrev.05
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> Thanks.  I'm hoping we can put this in today, especially with the reduced dependency on port changes.

Yes, I'm very sure we can.  I will review it right now and again do some test builds.  Having this in will also make my porting work easier.

-- Christian