RFR: 8261211: Zero: alpha builds fail with '-fstack-protector not supported for this target'

Fri Feb 5 10:18:39 UTC 2021

On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 09:38:03 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I believe the intent was to trust that every recent GCC has this option. But this issue shows that stack-protector support is also arch-specific?

Apparently so. But then again all platforms except alpha has this in recent gcc versions, so I think it was an understandable misunderstanding. :) Do anyone build alpha at any regularity at all? I thought Debian at least did that. But this must have been broken for quite some time?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2423