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

[Tim Bell]

On 07/24/13 04:43 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> 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?

The earlier clang/hotspot activity was centered around Linux x86/x86_64.

>> 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?

Yes, all the queues have 10.8 Macs, which have been test-only up until now.

>> 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?

This file is not used when building on Linux.

Tim

>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> All of the changes:
>>
>>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~tbell/8019470/webrev.00/
>
>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Tim
>>