RFR: 8325878: Require minimum Clang version 13

Kim Barrett kbarrett at openjdk.org
Tue Mar 5 07:22:47 UTC 2024


On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 05:19:45 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change that updates the minimum supported version of Clang
> to be used for building OpenJDK from 3.5 to 13.
> 
> This permits enabling C++17 (JDK-8314488), though Clang 5 might suffice for
> that. A minimum of Clang 13 also obtains a critical bug fix for the [[noreturn]]
> attribute (see JDK-8303805).
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier1, which includes building with a recent version of Xcode/clang.

Thanks for reviews/responses. I'll go ahead with integration. We won't be
reliant on the new version immediately, so we can still reconsider if it
causes someone problems and they bring it up soon-ish.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17862#issuecomment-1978107784


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