Shark build passes TCK

[Edward Nevill]

Congratulations Gary et al, great work.

Rod: Copied FYI,

Ed.

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 16:03 +0100, Gary Benson wrote:
> For the past few months the OpenJDK team at Red Hat has been working
> to stabilize the Shark JIT compiler for HotSpot to the point where
> IcedTea builds of OpenJDK using Shark are capable of passing the Java
> SE 6 TCK.
> 
> As a result of this work I am pleased to announce that an IcedTea
> build of OpenJDK using Shark has passed the Java SE 6 TCK and is
> compatible with the Java SE 6 platform.
> 
> The test system was as follows:
> 
>  Operating system: Fedora 12, x86_64
>  LLVM: http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/llvm-2.6.tar.gz,
>    configured with: --with-pic --enable-pic
>  IcedTea: http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/icedtea6
>    revision: 7674917fa451
>    configured with: --enable-shark
> 
> This work was funded by Red Hat.