8210423: Backport of 8034788 breaks GCC version detection

[Kevin Walls]

Hi Andrew,

I think I did that, so must have gone macro-blind by that point. Yes, 
looks good to me.

Thanks
Kevin


On 05/09/2018 17:05, Andrew Haley wrote:
> The JDK8u backport of 8034788 changed the variable name CXX_VERSION
> (in configure) to CXX_VERSION_NUMBER. Unfortunately this was not done
> consistently, and as a result the version number check for GCC is
> broken. As a result of that brokenness, HotSpot built on all GCC
> versions >=6 is unstable.
>
> Intriguingly, the comments aroud te affected code are correct, and
> refer to CXX_VERSION_NUMBER, but the actual variable name is wrong.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~aph/8210423/
>
> OK?
>