RFR: 8295795: hsdis does not build with binutils 2.39+

Mon Jan 23 13:59:06 UTC 2023

On Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:26:59 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Fails like this:
> 
> 
> $ sh ./configure --with-boot-jdk=jdk19u-ea --with-hsdis=binutils --with-binutils-src=binutils-2.39
> $ make clean build-hsdis
> 
> === Output from failing command(s) repeated here ===
> * For target support_hsdis_hsdis-binutils.o:

Maybe introduce a versioning protocol as part of the hsdis API? That way at the very least hsdis can tell the user in a polite way that the current JVM is too old to be supported, instead of crashing with unhelpful error messages?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10817