RFR: JDK-8258484: AIX build fails in Harfbuzz with XLC 16.01.0000.0006 [v2]

[Martin Doerr]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2021 09:34:09 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hello,  for a while the AIX build fails with the following error in the harfbuzz build 
>>     1500-004: (U) INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR while compiling OT::MarkBasePosFormat1::collect_variation_indices(hb_collect_variation_indices_context_t *) const.
>> Compilation ended. Contact your Service Representative and provide the following information: GRARNN: gr29643 is used before it is defined.
>> 
>> This xlc 16 version is used for compiling 
>> bash-4.4$ xlc -qversion
>> IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V16.1.0 (5725-C72, 5765-J12)
>> Version: 16.01.0000.0006
>> 
>> Solution by IBM compiler support is to use  "-qdebug=necan", this  effectively turns off an optimisation called "Early Re-canonizing" on the harfbuzz lib.
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Marked as reviewed by mdoerr (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1972