<AWT Dev> [12] Gcc 8.1 HarfBuzz library compilation issues

[Simon Tooke]

On 2018-11-20 5:31 a.m., Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> On 2018-11-19 22:22, Simon Tooke wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been looking at compiling the JDK with GCC 8.1, and trying to fix
>> issues upstream as I find them.
> Nice! If you find issues in the JDK source code per se, please let us
> know. :) Sooner or later, we'll have to support gcc 8 properly anyway,
> might just as well try to clear the path already.

I noticed yesterday that
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213153 from Dmitry Chuyko is
also working on GCC 8.  I am not sure how far down the rabbit hole he
is, but I (with the kind assistance of Severin Gehwolf since I'm not a
committer) am submitting a series of patches to move towards that. I
have a JDK tree compiling with 8.1, but it still has to disable warnings
in more places than I feel comfortable with.

>
> /Magnus
>> For example the version of HarfBuzz shipped in the JDK has some issues
>> with template specialization and with clearing a struct via memset()
>> (thus bypassing C++ member access restrictions).
>>
>> I've had changes to address these issues accepted upstream [1], and I
>> was wondering if it is appropriate for me to file an issue to backport
>> those fixes (I have a patch ready) or do you prefer to wait until
>> HarfBuzz is upgraded to the latest version during the natural course of
>> JDK development.
>>
>> (Be aware that the JDK is on a 1.7 version, while these fixes are in a
>> 2.X version).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Simon
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/1334
>>
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