On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:58:06 GMT, Andrew Haley <a...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> We do not support gcc on macos, windows or aix, which leaves linux as the 
> only gcc platform in the mainline (ports in separate repos will have to 
> handle this themselves). We do support using clang on linux instead of gcc 
> (but do not test it regularly). But my impression here is that this is more 
> of a gcc-problem than a linux problem..?

Indeed. The problem is that we have no idea what compiler was used to compile 
the libraries we call, so I'd like to be conservative. The increase in runtime 
due to saving and restoring the floating-point environment is very low, given 
that `dlopen()` is a pretty expensive operation.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10661

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