RFR: 8256977: Bump minimum GCC from 5.x to 6 for JDK

Mon Sep 13 08:16:53 UTC 2021

On Thu, 9 Sep 2021 19:28:54 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The minimum acceptable version is raised from 5 to 6. There were no objections on the mailing list for doing so in the mainline, see https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2021-August/031899.html.
> 
> This patch also reverts the workaround that was introduced in JDK-8252797 to support gcc 5.x.

Yes, I think there would be no harm to do this for JDK mainline.

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Marked as reviewed by shade (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5452