RFR: 8321688: Build on linux with GCC 7.5.0 fails after 8319577 [v2]

[Guoxiong Li]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:23:28 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> @lgxbslgx We would like to keep GCC 8.4.0 as the minimum.
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>> Why?  That's likely going to be in conflict with https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14988.
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>> @kimbarrett I meant to say that since the libsimdsort works with GCC 8.4.0, the #define guard in libsimdsort sources could be restricted to just that and we don't have to artificially raise it to GCC 9. Do you think that is an issue?
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> I don't think we should be depending on an experimental compiler feature when there are alternatives.

@kimbarrett @sviswa7 Thanks for your reviews. Integrating.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17047#issuecomment-1863808489