RFR: 8253795: Implementation of JEP 391: macOS/AArch64 Port [v3]

[Andrew Haley]

On 1/26/21 6:42 PM, erik.joelsson at oracle.com wrote:
> My understanding is that Apple chose to not provide JNF for aarch64, so 
> if you want to build OpenJDK, you first need to build JNF yourself (it's 
> available in github). Phil is working on removing this dependency 
> completely, which will solve this issue [1].
> 
> In the meantime, I don't think we should rely on finding JNF in 
> unsupported locations inside Xcode. Could we wait with integrating this 
> port until it can be built without such hacks?

That sounds right to me.

In the meantime, there is some cleanup work to be done in mainline
on slow_signature_handler, which will potentially make the AArch64
back end merge much simpler.

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Andrew Haley  (he/him)
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