On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:09:26 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > can we get rid of LDCXX? > > Yeah, that is something I plan to look into. Linking C++ object files with > gcc will fail; and it might be that linking pure C with g++ might be > problematic. If this is the case, I hope we can at least determine this > automatically which linker frontend to use, i.e. selecting g++ as linker > frontend if there is at least one .cpp file in the set of sources. > > This PR is actually a kind of prerequisite for that kind of work. I'd certainly opt for selecting which linker driver to use automatically than using one for both; According to some discussions with several gcc maintainers (https://web.libera.chat/) they really aren't meant to be intermingled Also was fine with LANG; There wasn't a need to change it to LINK_TYPE, but oh well ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17986#issuecomment-1966341897
