On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 14:28:02 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> If is is a big change or not depends on how it affects builds on macos. I > assume that clang functionality that was published in 2017 is already > incorporated in the minimum supported version of Xcode on mac. (This needs to > be verified, though) > > For clang on linux; Oracle do not regularly build linux with clang, nor do > our GHA build scripts. I don't know if anyone regularly tests this. > > My guess is that the 3.5 limit was put in place when the clang for linux > support was added, and it has not been modified since. Okay, I see, thanks for the summary! > But you are probably right that it should be a separate PR, if not for > anything else so to get proper attention to it. Yes, it's probably better to get more attention for this update. > Do you want me to publish such a PR first, or do you want to continue with > the current conditionals, and clean them up afterwards if/when we go to clang > 5.0+? I think both is fine. But since I already have the patch ready, I suggest to move forward with it and then come back later to clean it up. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10287
