RFR: 8087156: SetupNativeCompilation ignores CFLAGS_release for cpp files

[Omair Majid]

* Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> [2015-06-12 09:02]:
> Looks good to me too.

Thanks for the review! Sorry I was unable to credit you since I already
pushed the patch.

> However, this is not the first time we've encountered a problem like this. I
> ran into a similar problem some time ago. It's a very brittle system we
> have. I believe we should get rid of the CXXFLAGS and just have CFLAGS and
> let them cover c++ compilation as well.
> 
> Do we have use cases where C and C++ both are used in the same library, and
> requires different flags?

I took a cursory look through everything (except hotspot makefiles) and
I don't see any obvious such case. All code uses either identical CFLAGS
and CXXFLAGS or only one of CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS.

Thanks,
Omair

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