RFR: JDK-8074099 Even with toolchain type clang, OBJC is set to gcc

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Tue Mar 3 13:45:15 UTC 2015


On 2015-03-03 13:01, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> Open question: Should we do the same for toolchain-type=gcc? I'm not 
> quite sure what we're getting from calling the AC_PROG_OBJC macro, 
> except perhaps a loss of transparency on how our tools are picked up. 
> :-/ In fact, maybe we should just skip the OBJC variable completely. 
> In fact, for Objective-C++ (.mm) files, we just use the normal C++ 
> compiler. 

The more I think of it, the more I like this idea. Here's a new patch 
that does exactly this.

WebRev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8074099-remove-objc/webrev.01

/Magnus




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