OpenJDK9 Build Error on Linux 32-bit

[David Holmes]

This seems like a compiler bug to me. When we compile with a later gcc 
we do not see this, but neither the constant's value nor the size of 
long has changed. Not that it is at all clear what "integer constant" is 
being referred to.

David

On 22/12/2015 6:21 AM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> I have seen the same error in other parts of the code when building on
> older versions of Linux and am not surprised it pops up again. At
> Oracle, we don't support this old version of Redhat anymore for JDK 9 so
> it's not a regularly tested build configuration. I would recommend
> trying a newer version of GCC to get a working build. Internally we use
> GCC 4.9.2 built from source.
>
> If that is not an option, you will need to fix the types. I remember
> wrapping 64 bit constants in CONST64() did the trick before, but this
> isn't really my area of expertise.
>
> /Erik
>
> On 2015-12-21 21:03, Vidaurre, Silvia L wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just downloaded OpenJDK9, and am trying to build it on 32bit RHEL
>> 5.11 with g++ 4.2.1, and I am getting this error from
>> commandLineFlagRangeList.cpp:
>>
>> hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/commandLineFlagRangeList.cpp:293: error:
>> integer constant is too large for 'long' type
>>
>> commandLineFlagRangeList.cpp:293 points to:
>>    emit_range_no(NULL RUNTIME_FLAGS(EMIT_RANGE_DEVELOPER_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_PD_DEVELOPER_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_PRODUCT_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_PD_PRODUCT_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_DIAGNOSTIC_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_EXPERIMENTAL_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_NOTPRODUCT_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_MANAGEABLE_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_PRODUCT_RW_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_LP64_PRODUCT_FLAG,
>>                                     EMIT_RANGE_CHECK,
>>                                     IGNORE_CONSTRAINT) );
>>
>>
>> These are my configuration and build commands:
>> bash ./configure --enable-debug --disable-warnings-as-errors
>> --with-target-bits=32 --with-boot-jdk=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_60
>> make LOG=debug all
>>
>> Has anyone seen this error before? How do I go about fixing this
>> error? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Silvia Vidaurre
>