Re: RFR: 8257181: s390x builds are very noisy with gc-sections messages

[Martin Doerr]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:18:04 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Sample build log sizes:
> 
> PPC64 fastdebug, 200 kilobytes:
>    
> https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-jdk/build-logs/build-linux-ppc64le-fastdebug.log
> 
> S390X fastdebug, 20 megabytes!
>    
> https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-jdk/build-logs/build-linux-s390x-server-fastdebug.log
> 
> S390X slowdebug, 200 megabytes!
>    
> https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-jdk/build-logs/build-linux-s390x-server-slowdebug.log
> 
> JDK-8234525 enabled `gc-sections`. We can and should disable 
> `print-gc-sections` to get sane build logs back.
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] Linux s390x fastdebug cross-compilation

I agree. This is far too much for the regular build.
If anybody wants to check unused functions, it should better be turned on 
locally.

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Marked as reviewed by mdoerr (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1459