RFR: 8304295: VM build fails with GCC 7 after JDK-8301998

Thu Mar 30 21:27:20 UTC 2023

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:05:40 GMT, Joshua Cao <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Builds successfully with GCC 7
> 
> 
> gcc (GCC) 7.3.1 20180712 (Red Hat 7.3.1-15)
> Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If we will going forward with this patch, can we exclude the warning for the old compilers only? as was mentioned in the JBS the gcc10+ compiles that code fine.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13253#issuecomment-1490984429