David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote: > Andrew, > > Andrew Haley said the following on 06/20/08 20:55: >> The changes we had to make to build OpenJDK with gcc 4.3 were to fix >> nonstandard C++ code and to turn off -Werror because gcc 4.3 is much >> more fulsome in its warnings. Rather than insist on using an older >> compiler, we would probably be better off fixing the code that >> generates the warnings. > > It isn't compilation that is the issue (we should certainly fix the > OpenJDK code to compile cleanly on a standards-compliant compiler) but > the actual runtime behaviour of the compiled code. WE don't "recommend" > the old compiler because it allows old sloppy code to get through, but > because we've already uncovered the bugs that affect us at runtime, > through literally years of use and testing.
Sure. I was counselling against the (oft-seen) practice of using an old compiler because the code doesn't run on the new one. Andrew.
