RFR(XS): 8215009: GCC 8 compilation eror in libjli
David Holmes
david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Dec 18 00:39:34 UTC 2018
On 11/12/2018 9:30 pm, Dmitry Chuyko wrote:
> On 12/11/18 4:03 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> Hi Dmitry,
>>
>> On 11/12/2018 12:16 am, Dmitry Chuyko wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please review a small fix in java_md_solinux.c: continuation is not
>>> truly compatible with pthread_create start_routine's signature but we
>>> control what actually happens. So it makes sense to add intermediate
>>> void* cast to silence the error.
>>
>> I'd be tempted to fix the signature and get rid of all the casts.
>
> David, the signature is a signature of
>
> int JNICALL JavaMain(void * _args)
>
> It would be fun to change it. But still on Windows it is correctly
> passed to _beginthreadex() and then return code is extracted with
> GetExitCodeThread(). In case we want it to return void* the cast will
> move there.
I think the current double cast is truly ugly and an ifdef for windows,
or a cast for Windows only would be an improvement.
But I won't impose that on you just to silence gcc 8.
Cheers,
David
> -Dmitry
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215009
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dchuyko/8215009/webrev.00/
>>> testing: submit repo
>>> (mach5-one-dchuyko-JDK-8215009-20181207-1625-13615: PASSED)
>>>
>>> -Dmitry
>>>
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