> On Jun 1, 2017, at 8:33 AM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Erik, > > Just to be clear it is not the use of <limits> that I am concerned about, it > is the -library=stlport4. It is the use of that flag that I would want to > check in terms of having no affect on any existing code generation. > > I'm finding the actual build situation very confusing. It seems to me in > looking at the hotspot build files and the top-level build files that -xnolib > is used for C++ compilation & linking whereas -library=%none is used for C > compilation & linking. But the change is being applied to $2JVM_CFLAGS which > one would think is for C compilation but we don't have $2JVM_CXXFLAGS, so it > seems to be used for both! > > David
Yes, it does look like there is some confusion there. The documentation says that if using -xnolib, then -library is ignored! Using -xnolib suppresses all the normal support libraries, and one must explicitly add back what’s needed. And it looks like we do add -lCrun.
