Hi,
Could I please get reviews of this JDK 8-only change?
The issue at hand is that the JDK 8 build seems to be inconsistent with
later JDK builds (9+). When somebody passes
--with-extra-c{,xx}-flags="-O2" to the OpenJDK build on JDK 9+ the JVM
will get compiled with -O3 for a release type build. Not so on JDK 8.
It gets compiled with -O2. The reason we are passing extra C flags via
configure is to: a) get distro-wide optimization done b) allow for
hardened builds. Without the --with-extra-c{,xx}-flags="-O2" flag,
libjsig, libsaproc will get compiled with no optimization. That's what
I'd like to fix. The proposed patch allows one to force -O2 for the JVM
via OPT_EXTRAS make variable if so desired. Omitting OPT_EXTRAS=-O2
allows one to get hotspot libraries optimized with -O2 and better.
Thoughts?
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210352
webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sgehwolf/webrevs/JDK-8210352/webrev.01/
Thanks,
Severin
