Fwd: HotSpot build on SPARC/Solaris

[Christian Thalinger]

This is more a runtime issue.  Forwarding to hotspot-runtime-dev and BCC'ing hotspot-compiler-dev.

-- Christian

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Azeem Jiva <azeem.jiva at oracle.com>
> Subject: HotSpot build on SPARC/Solaris
> Date: September 6, 2011 10:21:45 PM GMT+02:00
> To: hotspot-compiler-dev at openjdk.java.net
> 
> Trying to build on SPARC/Solaris I get the following error:
> 
> "/root/hsx/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp", line 6428: Error: Formal argument 6 of type unsigned* in call to recvfrom(int, void*, unsigned long, int, sockaddr*, unsigned*) is being passed int*.
> "/root/hsx/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp", line 6428: Error: Formal argument 6 of type unsigned* in call to recvfrom(int, void*, unsigned long, int, sockaddr*, unsigned*) is being passed int*.
> 
> It seems the method signature changed in Solaris 11 from int pointer to an unsigned pointer.  I can get around the issue by casting fromlen to an unsigned pointer, but that's dangerous.  I guess I'm looking for ideas for a better solution to this.
> 
> diff -r 7588156f5cf9 src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp
> --- a/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp  Mon Sep 05 17:09:05 2011 -0700
> +++ b/src/os/solaris/vm/os_solaris.cpp  Tue Sep 06 20:07:09 2011 +0000
> @@ -6425,7 +6425,7 @@
>                              sockaddr *from, int *fromlen) {
>    //%%note jvm_r11
>   INTERRUPTIBLE_RETURN_INT((int)::recvfrom(fd, buf, nBytes,\
> -    flags, from, fromlen), os::Solaris::clear_interrupted);
> +    flags, from, (unsigned*)fromlen), os::Solaris::clear_interrupted);
> }
> 
> int os::sendto(int fd, char *buf, int len, int flags,
> 
> -- 
> Azeem Jiva
> @javawithjiva
>