URGENT RFR: 8041141: JDK9 emb build failure on PPC platform

Tim Bell tim.bell at oracle.com
Mon Apr 21 23:57:25 UTC 2014


Hi David:

> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8041141/webrev/
>
> The recent changes to convert warnings to errors didn't account for 
> some type-punning warnings in our Embedded PPC build due to the use of 
> strict-aliasing. Really we shouldn't be using strict-aliasing so this 
> change (which for some reason is in the open flags.m4 file) brings ppc 
> in-line with all other platforms and sets -fno-strict-aliasing
>
> I will be pushing this to jdk9/dev as we need this fixed immediately.

Looks good to me.

Tim




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