On Thu, 10 Aug 2023 04:04:58 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We should set the -permissive- flag for the Microsoft Visual C compiler, as 
>> was requested by the now backed out 
>> [JDK-8241499](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8241499). It can be done 
>> with some effort, given that the significantly stricter gcc can now compile 
>> an experimental Windows JDK as of 2023, and will serve to significantly cut 
>> down on monstrosities in ancient Windows code
>
> Julian Waters has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Remove negation in os_windows.cpp

I had the same confusion, reading "-permissive-" the same as /permissive, but 
the trailing "-" means disable.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15096#issuecomment-1678081977

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