Hi - is there a group of people working on OpenJDK 8 for OpenBSD?

[Bryan C. Everly]

Kurt,

I have signed the OCA and sent it into Oracle.  My userid is bceverly if
that helps you find the agreement.


Thanks,
Bryan

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Kurt Miller <kurt at intricatesoftware.com>
wrote:

> Hi Bryan,
>
> Thanks for digging into it. Some comments inline below.
>
> On Mon, 2015-04-27 at 13:34 -0400, Bryan C. Everly wrote:
> > OK.  It compiled for quite some time and then hit a warning that
> > caused the build to stop.  Apparently there is a "treat warnings as
> > errors" flag set in the build scripts.
> >
> >
> > I found it in hotspot/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make and commented it out just
> > to keep moving.
>
> There's getting it to compile and then there's doing the porting work to
> address OpenBSD differences. I never treated the two steps separately
> and fixed each problem correctly as I hit them. Pushing forward and
> ignoring or patching away these problems will give you a result that
> doesn't work very well. Debugging issues from Java programs back to the
> C/C++ hotspot/jdk code can be difficult to say the least. If the
> compiler is telling there's a problem, it will save lots of time later
> if you address it upfront. In most cases you can just look at
> bsd-port/bsd-port (OpenJDK 7) for the solution.
>
> > Next error I hit was in os_posix.cpp on line 175 and 195.  RLIMIT_AS
> > was not declared in this scope.  From looking at the man page for
> > getrlimit() it looks like that is one that isn't available on OpenBSD.
> > While I should have spent more time looking for an analog (maybe
> > RLIMIT_RSS or RLIMIT_DATA?) I just put an #ifndef __OpenBSD__ around
> > the two code segments and pressed on.
>
> Please see bsd-port/bsd-port (OpenJDK 7) for the correct way to deal
> with this on OpenBSD:
>
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/bsd-port/bsd-port/hotspot/file/cdc8d4039989/src/os/posix/vm/os_posix.cpp#l178
>
> Memory management on OpenBSD is different then other operating systems
> due to ASLR and the use of mmap for malloc. I have incorporated those
> differences into the OpenJDK 7 port. You should port those OpenBSD
> specific parts forward instead of creating new solutions. The current
> ones have been tested over many years of use.
>
> Also, before posting any diffs here, please sign and submit the
> contributors agreement (OCA):
>
> http://openjdk.java.net/contribute/
>
> I wont be able to accept any diffs from you unless you're listed in the
> OCA Signatories List:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/oca-486395.html
>
> If you post diffs while not being a contributor, I will need to ignore
> them and independently develop my own corrections.
>
> Thanks for starting this effort.
>
> Regards,
> -Kurt
>
>
>
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