Contributing various small OpenJDK fixes: IKVM

[Julian Waters]

Hi Jerome,

Small patches that fix compilation with compilers not actually supported on
a certain platform like Windows are certainly accepted, so long as they are
not too intrusive. See JEP draft JDK-8288293, an entire effort to port the
Windows JDK to compile under gcc targeting Windows, so that MSYS2's
subsystems could have a proper JDK distribution. While the idea of proper
support of the gcc port has been met with resistance due to lack of a
sponsoring body and questions of who will be responsible for maintaining
it, I've been able to send moderately sized gcc compilation error fixes
upstream to the Windows JDK just fine most of the time, as the code quality
improvement from doing so benefits the JDK regardless. So feel free to send
your patches upstream! If you're not sure whether a specific patch will be
accepted, you could simply just use the mailing lists to ask whether it
will be acceptable to upstream a particular patch, whether the cost of
doing so will outweigh the benefit

Happy to help!

best regards,
Julian
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