RFR: 8329257: AIX: Switch HOTSPOT_TOOLCHAIN_TYPE from xlc to gcc [v3]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:09:50 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/alloca.3.html sounds like solution 2 is the cleanest one ("standards conformance"). It is also the version with minimal code and which will even work with future alloca usages :-)
>> If solution 2 has any disadvantage, I'd prefer solution 3.
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> I'm aware of this discussion and looking into the issues, but a personal matter has intervened and it will take
> me a while to respond properly.  Maybe next week.

I opened https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8330539 so we don't lose track of this, but we can keep the discussion/voting here.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18536#discussion_r1569528717