<AWT Dev> [9] RFR(XXS): 8178911: Building of awt_Window.cpp fails on Windows with VS2010

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi, Volker.
It seems that it was fixed already by
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8177137 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8177137>
Will be available in jdk9-dev soon.

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd kindly like to request the inclusion of the following trivial fix
> into jdk9 to keep it buildable with VS2010:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2017/8178911/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178911
> 
> I know that VS2010 isn't Oracle's default compiler for Windows, but
> others like SAP are still using it. The fix for JDK-8175293 introduced
> a struct assignment which is not supported by VS2010:
> 
> prevScaleRec = { -1, -1, -1 };
> 
> The fix is rather trivial and would keep the JDK9 sources buildable with VS2010:
> 
> prevScaleRec.scaleX = prevScaleRec.scaleY = prevScaleRec.screen = -1;
> 
> As this fix only removes some "syntactic sugar" I think it imposes no
> risks at all. The benefits of being able to still build the complete
> jdk 9 with VS2010 justifies in my opinion its inclusion into jdk9,
> even at this stage.
> 
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker

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