On Wed, 10 May 2023 13:52:50 GMT, JoKern65 <d...@openjdk.org> wrote: >> The new xlc17 compiler should be supported to build OpenJDK on AIX. This >> compiler, compared to the currently supported xlc16, has a significantly >> more recent clang (xlc 17.1.1 uses clang 15) included. >> 1. Because the frontend interface of the new compiler (c-flags, Ld-Flags) >> has changed from an xlc to a clang interface we decided to use the clang >> toolchain for the new xlc17 compiler. >> 2. Unfortunately, the system headers are mainly unchanged, so they do not >> harmonize with the src/hotspot/share/utilities/globalDefinitions_gcc.hpp >> which would be used if we totally switch to clang toolchain. So we keep the >> HOTSPOT_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE=xlc >> 3. In src/hotspot/share/utilities/globalDefinitions_xlc.hpp we introduce a >> new define AIX_XLC_GE_17 which is set if we build with the new xlc17 on AIX. >> This define will be used in following PRs. > > I followed your suggested corrections. Thanks a lot.
Thanks for taking on these changes @JoKern65! Happy to have them in place :-) ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13898#issuecomment-1544059954
