Hi, note: I have only been able to build Oracle platforms (x64-linux, osx, sparc-solaris, win64) with this enabled. It would be nice to get confirmation that other platforms will not break.
Thanks, Thomas On Thu, 2018-08-02 at 11:14 +0200, Thomas Schatzl wrote: > Hi all, > > there have been several suggestions to try to fix the Hotspot code > to > allow us to enable -Wreorder in the Hotspot sources. > This should make problems due to use-before-initialization much more > obvious. > > This change enables -Wreorder for gcc and clang. > > Of course it needs all previous RFRs sent to hotspot-dev to be > checked > in first to result in successful compilation of the code. > > Also checked by looking at the generated spec.gmk file which seems to > result in the flag in the I think "right" flag, but I am not very > knowledgable in this area. > > build-dev is CC'ed. > > CR: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8208672 > Webrev: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tschatzl/8208672/webrev/ > Testing: > hs-tier1-4,jdk-tier1-3 > > Thanks, > Thomas
