[oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] llvm: update 3.5.2 to have a sane ARM JIT for OpenJDK-8

[Jens Rehsack]

> Am 27.10.2015 um 21:15 schrieb Otavio Salvador <otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br>:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Jens Rehsack <rehsack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> llvm introduced new JIT technology MCJIT with llvm 3.4 and fixes ARM in 3.5
>> (see http://llvm.org/releases/3.5.2/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#changes-to-the-arm-backend).
>> 
>> Ensure JIT is built with llvm
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Rehsack <sno at netbsd.org>
> 
> There is a patch to add LLVM 3.7[1]; I think this one can be dropped.
> 
> 1. http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/106281/

I'v seen this and I guarantee that OpenJDK-8 will fail heavily with llvm3.7 - the guys
put an end to an antiquated API's with each release, and OpenJDK's zeroshark uses lot's
of them.

Cheers
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Jens Rehsack - rehsack at gmail.com