PPC Linux 64 needs -fsigned-char option for gcc

[Sean Chou]

Hello,

We found -fsigned-char is added to ppc platform, but not added to ppc64
platform. As they are different platforms, I think it is needed for ppc64
as well. Currently I just added one line modification as follow, but there
may be more places to modify. If some one can give some comments, I can
make a complete webrev.

The buggy scenario we found needs closed code to reproduce, so it is not
reproduced with current openjdk build on ppc linux from AIX porting
project. I tested with ibmjdk, the patch works.

I found CFLAGS_REQUIRED_ppc is from changeset
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/rev/54d8193f177b  . Is it enough
to add ppc64 option for places ppc appears in that patch?

///////////////////////// the patch ////////////////////////

diff --git a/make/common/Defs-linux.gmk b/make/common/Defs-linux.gmk
--- a/make/common/Defs-linux.gmk
+++ b/make/common/Defs-linux.gmk
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@
 LDFLAGS_COMMON_sparc    += -m32 -mcpu=v9
 CFLAGS_REQUIRED_arm     += -fsigned-char -D_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 CFLAGS_REQUIRED_ppc     += -fsigned-char -D_BIG_ENDIAN
+CFLAGS_REQUIRED_ppc64   += -fsigned-char -D_BIG_ENDIAN
 ifeq ($(ZERO_BUILD), true)
   CFLAGS_REQUIRED       =  $(ZERO_ARCHFLAG)
   ifeq ($(ZERO_ENDIANNESS), little)


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Best Regards,
Sean Chou