RFR (XL): 8019972: PPC64 (part 9): platform files for interpreter only VM.

[Christian Thalinger]

One question:  why did you choose to prefix all assembler instructions with ppc_?

-- Chris

On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:34 AM, "Lindenmaier, Goetz" <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This time with webrev. Sorry for the double mails.
> 
> This change contains all the files in cpu/ppc and os_cpu/linux_ppc needed for
> the PPC64 interpreter port on linux.
> 
> With this change you can do a core build on ppc64 and run the VM interpreter only.
> It executes simple programs as jvm98.
> The change requires
> 
> *         8016697: Use stubs to implement safefetch
> 
> *         8020059: The flag introduced by 8014972 is not defined ...
> which will arrive soon in the staging repository.
> 
> I marked the change as XL as it contains a lot of code.  Nevertheless the
> code has no impact on the existing Oracle platforms.
> 
> The change touches a single shared file, globals.hpp, removing a
> special case introduced for the port.  This is because we
> integrated some changes earlier than originally intended.
> 
> Please review the change.  Does it need testing on Oracle side?
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~goetz/webrevs/8019972-ppc_files/
> 
> Best regards,
>  Goetz.
>