Request for approval: Backport of 6781583 to hs14/OpenJDK6 (original) (raw)

Andrew John Hughes gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org
Tue Jun 9 02:33:12 PDT 2009

2009/6/9 Paul Hohensee <Paul.Hohensee at sun.com>:

There seems to be some confusion here.

Clearly, because what I believe we asked for was a stability branch and that was the point of going through this whole process for over three months. Why setup a forest unless it will be updated?

hs14 is the version of hotspot that shipped with 6u14 and as such, is frozen. We do not intend to apply or allow any further bug fixes to it, including the one you propose here.

I'm not asking you to apply it. I'm suggesting that I do.

It was never intended to be the basis for another

openjdk version of hotspot.

The entire point of making hs14 available was to use it in OpenJDK6, at least from the point of view of IcedTea developers.

 Ongoing hotspot development goes forward only in the

openjdk hotspot repo, which is currently labeled hs16.  Of course, anyone may feel free to clone hs14 if they like, and apply what fixes they will to said clone.

So you want us to create a fork? How does that help us all work together?

One of those clones could easily be jdk6 open, but that's not our (the hotspot group's) decision to make.

The next jdk6 update release will include a new version of hotspot, based either on hs14 (in which case it'll be an SSR, we'll likely call it hs14.1, and this fix will be off limits)

Why?

or the current openjdk hotspot repo (in which case

it will be a limited update, it'll likely be hs16, and the fix is already in it).  The going-forward release is hs16.  hs14 is a dead end.

Paul Andrew John Hughes wrote:

2009/6/8 Andrew John Hughes <gnuandrew at member.fsf.org>:

The following webrev: http://fuseyism.com/6781583/webrev.00/ is backported from OpenJDK7.  It allows hs14 to be built using GCC 4.3 and above.  Otherwise, the build fails.  IcedTea has been applying an equivalent fix as three separately developed patches, two of which have been there pretty much since its inception in the summer of 2007. Ok to commit? -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA  7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8

It's in the webrev, but to be explicit: this is for the new hs14 tree.

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