RFR: 8257181: s390x builds are very noisy with gc-sections messages

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:55:52 GMT, Lutz Schmidt <lucy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Sample build log sizes:
>> 
>> PPC64 fastdebug, 200 kilobytes:
>>    https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-jdk/build-logs/build-linux-ppc64le-fastdebug.log
>> 
>> S390X fastdebug, 20 megabytes!
>>    https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-jdk/build-logs/build-linux-s390x-server-fastdebug.log
>> 
>> S390X slowdebug, 200 megabytes!
>>    https://builds.shipilev.net/openjdk-jdk/build-logs/build-linux-s390x-server-slowdebug.log
>> 
>> JDK-8234525 enabled `gc-sections`. We can and should disable `print-gc-sections` to get sane build logs back.
>> 
>> Additional testing:
>>  - [x] Linux s390x fastdebug cross-compilation
>
> This "noise generator" looks like a leftover from way back development times. Thanks for tracking this down.

Thanks. Trivial, right? (So I can push now?)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1459