RFR: 8019470 "Changes needed to compile JDK8 on MacOS with clang compiler"

[David Holmes]

Hi Tim,

On 24/07/2013 8:15 AM, Tim Bell wrote:
> Hello everyone-
>
> This is a small set of changes to switch from gcc to clang when building

So we already added support for clang as the compiler for hotspot - is 
this just extending things to allow configure to select clang?

> on MacOS, and also enable building on MacOS 8.x

Have we already updated all the JPRT queues to have 10.8 macs versus 
10.7 ones?

> Here is the bug report:
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8019470
>
> Here are the webrevs:
>
> Hotspot only:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/8019470/hotspot/webrev.00/

  src/os/bsd/vm/os_bsd.cpp

Again I'm confused. We already allowed building via clang so why wasn't 
this change needed before?

Thanks,
David

> All of the changes:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/8019470/webrev.00/


> Thanks in advance.
>
> Tim
>