When we upgraded to clang 6.3, I verified that the problem still existed. See: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077364 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077364> which has pointers to the two tests that fail without the workaround.
/Staffan > On 6 okt 2015, at 17:38, Phil Race <philip.r...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Ideally hotspot would review this, not build. > so it would be helpful if hotspot found an engineer to own the bug :- > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8138820 > So far as I know this is not tracked under any other bug id. > > -phil. > > On 10/06/2015 05:30 AM, Jim Laskey (Oracle) wrote: >> I’ve updated to El Capitan and, of course, builds fail, and, of course, I >> modify hotspot/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make one more time and… I think this >> conditional clause should be removed at the very least (commenting to >> indicate needs investigation), or someone should research and see which >> version of clang fixes the issues associate with the patch. Since it’s >> likely that no one has the cycles, please remove the condition. >> >> Cheers, >> >> — Jim >> >> >> >> diff -r a02911828e48 make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make >> --- a/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make Wed Sep 30 07:41:36 2015 -0700 >> +++ b/make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make Tue Oct 06 09:22:50 2015 -0300 >> @@ -313,21 +313,13 @@ >> # Work around some compiler bugs. >> ifeq ($(USE_CLANG), true) >> - # Clang <= 6.1 >> - ifeq ($(shell expr \ >> - $(CC_VER_MAJOR) \< 6 \| \ >> - \( $(CC_VER_MAJOR) = 6 \& $(CC_VER_MINOR) \<= 1 \) \ >> - ), 1) >> - OPT_CFLAGS/loopTransform.o += $(OPT_CFLAGS/NOOPT) >> - OPT_CFLAGS/unsafe.o += -O1 >> - else >> - $(error "Update compiler workarounds for Clang >> $(CC_VER_MAJOR).$(CC_VER_MINOR)") >> - endif >> + OPT_CFLAGS/loopTransform.o += $(OPT_CFLAGS/NOOPT) >> + OPT_CFLAGS/unsafe.o += -O1 >> else >> # 6835796. Problem in GCC 4.3.0 with mulnode.o optimized compilation. >> ifeq ($(shell expr $(CC_VER_MAJOR) = 4 \& $(CC_VER_MINOR) = 3), 1) >> OPT_CFLAGS/mulnode.o += $(OPT_CFLAGS/NOOPT) >> - endif >> + endif >> endif >> # Flags for generating make dependency flags. >> >