> 4 feb. 2020 kl. 03:20 skrev David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com>: > > Hi Magnus, > > This all seems fine to me.
Thank you David. /Magnus > > Thanks, > David > >> On 3/02/2020 6:02 pm, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: >> JEP 347 "Adopt C++14 Language Features in HotSpot" (JDK-8208089) will >> require that all compilers support the C++14 language extension. The first >> gcc version to fully support C++14 is 5.0. We need to raise the bar from 4.8 >> to 5.0. >> Since removing support for old compilers, especially gcc, can be tricky to >> handle for some on old and odd setups, I think it's best to do this as a >> separate step from the C++14 upgrade. >> On the way, this will allow us to remove some workarounds/close some bugs >> for really old gcc versions. >> For hotspot, most notably this means: >> * The workarounds for no ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF are not needed anymore. >> * The workaround for ATTRIBUTE_ALIGNED is no longer needed. >> * The workaround in offset_of is not needed anymore. Instead, the >> appropriate warning is disabled. (In fact, now only xlc need special >> treatment for offset_of; if that could be fixed now, it would mean that >> offset_of can be replaced by offsetof in hotspot.) >> * [Bug fix] The define CAN_USE_NAN_DEFINE (which is used only in >> share/runtime/sharedRuntimeTrans.cpp), is now always defined for gcc. This >> was previously done only for gcc >= 4.3 and < 5. I believe this was a bug, >> and the intention was to allow for old-style NaN behavior in gcc 4.2 and >> older. >> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8238281 >> WebRev: >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8238281-make-gcc-5-minimum/webrev.01