Hi Erik, new webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8236714.6/
I moved the settings back into the m4 files . Best regards, Matthias > > Hello Matthias, > > You can keep the setting up of all the flags in flags-cflags.m4 and > flags-ldflags.m4 based on the value of ENABLE_LINKTIME_GC. You can also > default the value of this new parameter to true for s390x to keep the > current behavior for that platform. As it is in this patch, the JVM > flags for s390x are setup in configure while the JDK flags are in make, > which gets confusing I think. > > /Erik > > > On 2020-01-22 05:33, Baesken, Matthias wrote: > > Hi Magnus / David, here is a new webrev : > > > > > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8236714.4/ > > > > > > it supports now a configure switch --enable-linktime-gc=yes that needs to > be set to enable the link time section gc . > > > > Exception is linuxs390x where we already have the feature enabled (and > keep it enabled always for LIB_JVM). > > > > Best regards, Matthias > > > > > > > > From: Baesken, Matthias > > Sent: Freitag, 17. Januar 2020 12:44 > > To: Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com>; David Holmes > <david.hol...@oracle.com>; 'build-dev@openjdk.java.net' <build- > d...@openjdk.java.net>; 'hotspot-...@openjdk.java.net' <hotspot- > d...@openjdk.java.net> > > Subject: RE: RFR: 8236714: enable link-time section-gc for linux to remove > unused code > > > > > > > > * Matthias: Have a look at some recently added option to get an > indication of the best practice in adding new options. There are some ways to > easily make this incorrect > > > > Hi Magnus, do you have a good/”best practice” example (not that I catch a > bad one 😉 ) ? > > > > Best regards, Matthias > >