JDK 16 RFR of JDK-8235496 : "Start of release updates for JDK 16" and related work

[Jan Lahoda]

MAX_RADIX is 36, so this is about 20 more releases, i.e. about 10 years 
from now.

Jan

On 29. 05. 20 8:59, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
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> 
> On 2020-05-28 23:51, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The start of JDK 16 is right around the corner with JDK 15 forking off 
>> from jdk/jdk at ramp down 1 [1].
>>
>> Please review the usual build-related portions of
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>>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8235496.4/
> Looks good to me.
> 
> How big is MAX_RADIX, or rather, how much time is this buying us? :-)
> 
> /Magnus
>>
>> The build updates were as expected; the symbol information for JDK 15 
>> was extracted from JDK 15 b24. This may be updated to a later build 
>> for initial inclusion in JDK 16.
>>
>> Related review threads started on compiler-dev and hotspot dev.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/15/
>>
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