[PATCH RFC 0/5] fix build errors with gcc6

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 10:46 +0200, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello Guido,
> 
> Looking at your patches, none of them seem to actually be build system 
> changes, but rather code changes in various parts of the product. I 
> believe patch 1 and 5 should go to core-libs-dev and the rest to 
> hotspot-dev. For number 5, assuming the component team is ok with 
> disabling -Werror, then since it's a makefile change, it's also good 
> practice to include build-dev.

Patches 2-4 should go to hotspot-dev (or some sub-group list thereof).

Cheers,
Severin

> /Erik
> 
> On 2016-05-12 03:25, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > The following set of five patches aims to fix the errors that currently
> > occur during compilation of openjdk8u with gcc6.
> > 
> > I suppose some of the patches are trivial and can be applied easily
> > while others (in particular 4/5) would probably require more revision.
> > 
> > After applying the patchset, I can now build OpenJDK8 Update and it
> > seems to be working fine.
> > 
> > The following build options have been used:
> > 
> > --enable-unlimited-crypto
> > --with-extra-cflags="-O3 -march=nehalem -mtune=nehalem -Wno-error
> > -fpermissive -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse"
> > --with-extra-cxxflags="-O3 -march=nehalem -mtune=nehalem -Wno-error
> > -fpermissive -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fno-lifetime-dse"
> > --with-boot-jdk=/usr/lib64/jdk1.7.0_04
> > 
> > Thanks very much to Seán Coffey for pointing me to the right mailing
> > list and to David Holmes for the initial review of patch 4/5.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Guido