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

Tue Sep 14 11:32:15 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.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: ed7789d6
Author:    Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/ed7789d6a08bcf5e49907389c6c36a09e88e852a
Stats:     5 lines in 2 files changed: 0 ins; 4 del; 1 mod

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

Reviewed-by: erikj, shade

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