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

[Christian Thalinger]

On Jul 24, 2013, at 5:15 AM, Tim Bell <tim.bell at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.

That's not true.  I've added Mac OS X support with the same change.

-- Chris

> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>