RFR: JDK-8304291: [AIX] Broken build after JDK-8301998
Tyler Steele
tsteele at openjdk.org
Wed Apr 19 16:25:47 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.
I really appreciate your work on this one @MBaesken! This fix looks good.
I agree with Martin that we will want this to make its way to jdk17 and 11. Let me know if you would like me to take point on that task.
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Marked as reviewed by tsteele (Committer).
PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13529#pullrequestreview-1392448631
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