[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] RFR: Bug Pending: Build fails to compile jchuff.c

[Erik Joelsson]

Hello,

Oracle still builds JDK 10 and 11 using Xcode 6.3 using the Macosx10.9 
sdk. We are warning free there. Using newer versions of Xcode is known 
to produce warnings.

I'm currently in the process of updating the toolchain versions and 
platforms we use at Oracle so this should get fixed in the near future 
for JDK 11. Note though that it will deteriorate again with even newer 
versions of Xcode unless someone else provides fixes for it before we 
switch toolchain versions again.

/Erik



On 2018-02-01 09:57, Alan Snyder wrote:
>
>> On Feb 1, 2018, at 9:05 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com 
>> <mailto:erik.joelsson at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Regarding warning chasing. I agree that we it's not feasible to chase 
>> down every warning in every version of GCC, or any other toolchain, 
>> but I also think that for platforms/configurations where people are 
>> actively developing changes for OpenJDK, it makes sense to try to 
>> keep it clean. This helps prevent new code from introducing warnings. 
>> For the configurations Oracle use, we keep a strict -Werror policy 
>> because we want the code to be clean
>
> Is it not the case that building on macOS requires 
> -disable-warnings-as-errors? Or is that only the case on more recent 
> macOS releases that used by Oracle?
>
>   Alan
>