RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from xlc16 on AIX

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On 2019-02-06 09:05, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> Thank's Götz !
>
> David + Magnus may I add you as reviewers ?
Sure.

/Magnus
>
> Best regards, Matthias
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lindenmaier, Goetz
>> Sent: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2019 18:05
>> To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; David Holmes
>> <david.holmes at oracle.com>; 'hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net' <hotspot-
>> dev at openjdk.java.net>; 'magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com'
>> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
>> Cc: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>> Subject: RE: RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from
>> xlc16 on AIX
>>
>> looks good, thanks for the adjustment!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>    Goetz.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Baesken, Matthias
>>> Sent: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2019 17:56
>>> To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenmaier at sap.com>; David Holmes
>>> <david.holmes at oracle.com>; 'hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net' <hotspot-
>>> dev at openjdk.java.net>; 'magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com'
>>> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
>>> Cc: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>> Subject: RE: RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from
>>> xlc16 on AIX
>>>
>>> Hi Götz, new webrev :
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8218136.4/
>>>
>>>
>>>> The old xlc stuff is good to be removed.
>>>> Could you please remove USE_XLC_PREFETCH_WRITE_BUILTIN
>>>> altogether and replace its only use by USE_XLC_BUILTINS?
>>>>
>>> Done .
>>>
>>>> Also, I think it makes sense to put
>>>>    #if __IBMCPP__ < 1000
>>>>    #error "xlc < 10 not supported"
>>>>    #endif
>>>> into the file.
>>>>
>>>> Probably we should even check for having at least xlc 12.
>>> I added a check for xlc 12.
>>> Also  slightly changed the check for AIX  (_AIX macro)  in
>>> globalDefinitions_xlc.hpp  .
>>>
>>>
>>>> The demangle fix is kind of preliminary, but to get the compiler
>>>> working it is acceptable to skip this code for now.
>>>>
>>> There might be a fix for xlc16  in the future  but so far we have to live with
>> it.
>>>
>>> Best regards, Matthias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Lindenmaier, Goetz
>>>> Sent: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2019 09:59
>>>> To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; David Holmes
>>>> <david.holmes at oracle.com>; 'hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net'
>> <hotspot-
>>>> dev at openjdk.java.net>; 'magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com'
>>>> <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
>>>> Cc: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>>> Subject: RE: RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from
>>>> xlc16 on AIX
>>>>
>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>
>>>> The demangle fix is kind of preliminary, but to get the compiler
>>>> working it is acceptable to skip this code for now.
>>>>
>>>> The old xlc stuff is good to be removed.
>>>> Could you please remove USE_XLC_PREFETCH_WRITE_BUILTIN
>>>> altogether and replace its only use by USE_XLC_BUILTINS?
>>>>
>>>> Also, I think it makes sense to put
>>>>    #if __IBMCPP__ < 1000
>>>>    #error "xlc < 10 not supported"
>>>>    #endif
>>>> into the file.
>>>>
>>>> Probably we should even check for having at least xlc 12.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>    Goetz.
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: hotspot-dev <hotspot-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On
>> Behalf
>>>> Of
>>>>> Baesken, Matthias
>>>>> Sent: Montag, 4. Februar 2019 12:36
>>>>> To: David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>; 'hotspot-
>>>>> dev at openjdk.java.net' <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>;
>>>>> 'magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com' <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
>>>>> Cc: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>>>> Subject: RE: RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++
>> from
>>>>> xlc16 on AIX
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi  David,  I  want to follow your suggestion 😊 .
>>>>> I adjusted the comment , see  globalDefinitions_xlc.hpp  .
>>>>>
>>>>> Additionally I removed a  strange ifdef  handling pre-xlc10 versions  that
>> are
>>>>> not useful  today any more for OpenJDK
>>>>> ( we  most likely cannot build jdk/jdk  with xlc versions < 10).
>>>>>
>>>>> New webrev :
>>>>>
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8218136.2/
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards, Matthias
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
>>>>>> Sent: Freitag, 1. Februar 2019 13:49
>>>>>> To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; 'hotspot-
>>>>>> dev at openjdk.java.net' <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>;
>>>>>> 'magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com' <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
>>>>>> Cc: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++
>> from
>>>>>> xlc16 on AIX
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 1/02/2019 10:36 pm, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
>>>>>>> New webrev :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8218136.1/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - adjusted  globalDefinitions_xlc.hpp
>>>>>> I don't think it makes sense to keep the comment which was
>> obviously
>>>>>> copied from the gcc file:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    // On Linux NULL is defined as a special type '__null'. Assigning
>>>>>> __null to
>>>>>>     // integer variable will cause gcc warning. Use NULL_WORD in places
>>>>>> where a
>>>>>>     // pointer is stored as integer value.  On some platforms,
>>>>>> sizeof(intptr_t) >
>>>>>>     // sizeof(void*), so here we want something which is integer type,
>>>>>> but has the
>>>>>>     // same size as a pointer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rather something like:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> // Some platform/tool-chain combinations can't assign NULL to an
>> integer
>>>>>> // type so we define NULL_WORD to use in those contexts. For xlc
>> they
>>>>>> // are the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>