RFR: JDK-8304291: [AIX] Broken build after JDK-8301998
Martin Doerr
mdoerr at openjdk.org
Wed Apr 19 10:53:51 UTC 2023
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 10:38:19 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:
> After the latest harfbuzz update, the AIX build is broken. The old clang compiler from xlc16 does not compile harfbuzz correctly.
> First issue in hb-algs.hh is that xlc16 clang still sets some GNUC-related macros, so we do not run into the `__clang_major__ >= 8` check that should prevent to try to compile `__builtin_mul_overflow` with ancient clang.
> The other issue in `hb-subset.cc` is a bit tricky and has been observed as well on macOS when very old clang versions were used.
>
> Probably we can get rid of those 2 workarounds in some months after switching to xlc17 which includes a rather new clang version.
LGTM. Thanks for fixing the AIX build! I think we will need this fix for 11u and 17u because we will probably stick with xlc 16 for these releases.
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Marked as reviewed by mdoerr (Reviewer).
PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13529#pullrequestreview-1391795403
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