On Sat, 17 Feb 2024 08:28:56 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarr...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this change that updates the minimum supported version of gcc > to be used for building OpenJDK from 6.0 to 10.0. > > This permits enabling C++17 (JDK-8314488), though gcc 9.0 might suffice for > that. A minimum of gcc 10 also obtains the primitives needed to support a > work-alick for std::is_constant_evaluated (added in C++20). There are a bunch > of improvements that would be enabled by that. Having it would also allow the > elimination of a bit of a mess in the HotSpot assert macros that was needed to > work around the lack of that feature (JDK-8303805). Either current or proposed > minimum versions of other supported compilers also provide the needed > primitives. > > Testing: mach5 tier1 (uses gcc13.2 on gcc-based platforms) > Locally (linux-x64) built and ran tier1 with gcc10.3. There was some discussion of gcc versions over in the PR proposing to enable C++17: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14988#issuecomment-1895511862 https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14988#issuecomment-1895729165 Has that been sufficiently answered? Good to go here? @shipilev @theRealAph @TheRealMDoerr ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17899#issuecomment-1968089822
