On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:07:15 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>>> Is Open XL C/C++ considered a compiler or more akin to a development >>> environment like Xcode is for macOS? Depending on which, we could just say >>> clang is the compiler for AIX without needing to say that Open XL is >>> treated like clang, etc >> >> You are raising a good point. Our current concept of "toolchain" is not >> working as smoothly as it should be. We should probably split it into >> "toolchain environment" (or whatever), like Xcode or Open XL, and "toolchain >> compiler" (like clang), and/or possibly also some concept of "toolchain sdk". >> >> The work you are doing of untangling Windows from Visual Studio would >> probably influence such a redesign, seeing what part of the Windows >> adaptions which arise from cl, and which are constant given that you compile >> for windows (like the Windows SDK). >> >> But this is a more architectural issue that will need to be resolved in >> another PR, and probably discussed quite a bit beforehand. > >> why did this remove the link to the Supported Build Platforms page? > > You make it sound like it is a bad thing, but in fact I promoted the AIX > build to be of the same status as all other platforms. I cowardly did not put > anything specific about the AIX build in the readme before, but just referred > to the wiki. Now I decided we should actually treat this as a proper platform > and describe the compiler version in the readme, since it is checked in > configure, just like all other platforms. > > There is still a link to the Supported Build Platforms wiki page in the > general part of the readme. > It is clang 15 not 13. Clang 13 was in 17.1.0 Thanks! Fixed. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18172#discussion_r1521646622
