jdk8-b24: HotSpot

2012-02-01 Thread Alejandro E Murillo
hs23-b12 has been integrated into jdk8-b24. http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/rev/1a5f1d6b98d6 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/corba/rev/b98f0e6dddf9 http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/a80fd4f45d7a http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jaxp/rev/7836655e2495 http://hg.openjdk.

hg: jdk8/jdk8/hotspot: 44 new changesets

2012-02-01 Thread john . coomes
Changeset: 5f3fcd591768 Author:amurillo Date: 2012-01-20 17:07 -0800 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/hotspot/rev/5f3fcd591768 7131979: new hotspot build - hs23-b12 Reviewed-by: jcoomes ! make/hotspot_version Changeset: 53a127075045 Author:kvn Date: 2012-01-20 09

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Volker Simonis
I think the prerequisite for a port can not be that there exists access to it on "x86 hardware". With this constraint there will never be an OpenJDK port to other architectures like PPC/Itanium/ARM to name just a few. (By the way, there once upon a time was a mips -porting project http://openjdk.j

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Volker Simonis
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 01/02/2012 16:40, Steve Poole wrote: >> >> >> I can see your point of view  but the amount of work to support AIX is >> much lower than that for Mac - so I don't see the need.  You obviously have >> some critieria in your head about port vs

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Bateman
On 01/02/2012 16:40, Steve Poole wrote: I can see your point of view but the amount of work to support AIX is much lower than that for Mac - so I don't see the need. You obviously have some critieria in your head about port vs no port so I would be interested to understand that in more deta

Re: Java User Group - Warnings clean-up hack day - 31st of Jan

2012-02-01 Thread Rémi Forax
On 02/01/2012 05:37 PM, Martijn Verburg wrote: I'll add this to the notes, thanks John. On 31 January 2012 23:25, John Rose wrote: It only strengthen's your already unassailable conclusion, but I'll add: ... may have a reference to an "enclosing instance" +[and/or references to captured loca

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Phil Race
On 1/31/2012 2:49 AM, Steve Poole wrote: hi all, Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. To recap the salient points of the thread: 1: The scale of the changes to support AIX witho

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Poole
On 01/02/2012 02:00, David Holmes wrote: Stepping up a level I think we need to address the way we currently arrange our sources and build files along OS/architecture lines before trying to integrate any further ports into mainline (including the OSX port that is currently off-to-the-side in 7u

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Poole
On 31/01/2012 16:46, Alan Bateman wrote: On 31/01/2012 10:49, Steve Poole wrote: hi all, Last year there was a discussion [1] about adding AIX platform support into OpenJDK. I'd like to pick up that conversation and complete this work. To recap the salient points of the thread: 1: The s

Re: Java User Group - Warnings clean-up hack day - 31st of Jan

2012-02-01 Thread Martijn Verburg
I'll add this to the notes, thanks John. On 31 January 2012 23:25, John Rose wrote: > It only strengthen's your already unassailable conclusion, but I'll add: >  ... may have a reference to an "enclosing instance" +[and/or references to > captured local variable values] ... anonymous classes have

Re: Java User Group - Warnings clean-up hack day - 31st of Jan

2012-02-01 Thread Martijn Verburg
Hi Stuart, Thanks very much again for helping out on the day, it certainly saved a few of the devs from getting permanently stuck! > Ah, it looks like you guys wrapped up while I was taking my lunch break. I > hope your hack session was fun and productive. It was! Mike (Michael Barker) is gathe

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Bateman
On 01/02/2012 15:02, Tobias Frech wrote: Hi! The following might be inappropriate here, but I found it very surprising when I found out rt.jar contains platform specific code in the classes that are part of the API. I would have expected all of these special cases to be locked away in some sun.*

Re: AIX and OpenJDK

2012-02-01 Thread Tobias Frech
Hi! The following might be inappropriate here, but I found it very surprising when I found out rt.jar contains platform specific code in the classes that are part of the API. I would have expected all of these special cases to be locked away in some sun.* classes. As I spoke to other developers abo