RFR: JDK-8211073 Remove -Wno-extra from Hotspot

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

Anyone from Hotspot who can review the code changes?

/Magnus

On 2018-09-24 22:31, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
> The -Wextra option to gcc enables a bunch of useful warnings.[1] Some 
> of them, but not all, can be individually enabled or disabled. All 
> other libraries in OpenJDK are compiled with -Wextra, but not Hotspot. 
> Enabling -Wextra on Hotspot triggers a couple of warnings for zero 
> that can be individually disabled.
>
> However, -Wextra also includes some check that cannot be disabled 
> individually, so to be able to add this, we must at the same time fix 
> those warnings.
>
> The warnings that cannot be disabled and which have been triggered in 
> Hotspot is "enumeral and non-enumeral type in conditional expression" 
> and "base class should be explicitly initialized in the copy 
> constructor". The former complains about mixing enums and integers in 
> the tertiary operator (x ? enum_val : int_val). If you think that gcc 
> is a bit too picky here, I agree. It's not obvious per se that the 
> added casts improve the code. However, this is the price we need to 
> pay to be able to enable -Wextra, and *that* is something that is 
> likely to improve the code.
>
> The second warning about the copy constructor is, for what I can tell, 
> a highly valid warning and the code it warned on was indeed broken. As 
> far as I can tell, in a derived copy constructor you should always 
> explicitly initialize the base class.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211073
> WebRev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8211073-remove-Wno-extra-from-hotspot/webrev.01
>
> /Magnus
>
> [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html
>