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

Dalibor Topic Dalibor.Topic at Sun.COM
Wed Jun 17 21:12:50 PDT 2009

Paul Hohensee wrote:

Excellent idea. :)

Paul Martin Buchholz wrote: Paul, Thanks for the clear explanation.

Given this, I'm thinking we lobby Joe Darcy to use a copy of hotspot 14 stable as the hotspot to use with OpenJDK6. Which can then evolve with community input. Andrew can do the first commit.

I agree. The hsx team can easily keep the gcc version they use stable, so they don't need to introduce changes to make hsx code work with latest gcc releases. OpenJDK 6, otoh, is used in distributions that ship bleeding edge gccs, so it needs to keep evolving along with gcc, which implies two different drivers, and that's a good reason to copy and go.

In order to avoid accumulating gcc patchlets monotonously in OpenJDK 6 clone of hsx, such fixes should also be submitted to the hotspot team, where they apply to the in development version of hotspot.

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