Kim,
Thank you for posting this. It's an important step to make. I wanted to
clarify a couple of points:
1. Since this is infrastructure JEP, is the version of JDK which will
undergo such changes going to be some future version or does it apply to
past versions as well? I'm concerned with how we can simplify security
backports to 8u which (I currently assume) is not subject to this change.
2. Which versions of GCC do you tentatively consider at this point?
Non-x86 ports may have a problem upgrading to a specific version of GCC
which the shared code will use and may need additional lead time to adjust.
Thanks,
-Aleksei
On 03/10/2018 22:13, Kim Barrett wrote:
I've submitted a JEP for
(1) enabling the use of C++14 Language Features when building the JDK,
(2) define a process for deciding and documenting which new features
can be used or are forbidden in HotSpot code,
(3) provide an initial list of permitted and forbidden new features.
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8208089
