Contributing various small OpenJDK fixes: IKVM

[Andrew Haley]

On 7/19/24 15:35, Jerome Haltom wrote:
> I would like to get some of these changes into upstream. Are these the
> types of changes that might be acceptable to upstream? This seemed like a
>   good place for me to start with this discussion. At the end of the day,
>   they are mostly minor changes fixing various minor compilation issues
> with Clang. They should however translate to anybody attempting to build
>   OpenJDK itself, using Clang, on !Windows targeting Windows, or
> targeting odd platforms like musl.
> 
> Also, we're pretty much stuck at JDK8 (today), so my fixes would be
> targeting that.

I'm the 8u lead.

8u is basically done, and our job is to protect its stability. Having said
that, we want to keep 8u going on changing environments, so build changes
aren't forbidden. They'd have to be unintrusive and not affect anything else.

Bear in mind that changes should first be applied to more recent releases.
Also bear in mind that no one working on 8u is going to test in your
environment, so things might break for you.

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