RFE: configuration for compiling HotSpot with Clang

[Mark Wielaard]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 19:24 +0100, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Notice that this patch contains one additional change compared to the
> patch in the blog. While I did the tests for the blog with an slightly
> outdated HS20b03 I synced a brand new version today to prepare the
> patch. With this new version I found a true C++ bug in
> "src/share/vm/utilities/hashtable.hpp" which was introduced recently
> by the "6990754: Use native memory and reference counting to implement
> SymbolTable" change and which has to do with name lookup of
> nondependent names in dependent base classes (see
> http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/templates.html#faq-35.19 for a
> nice explanation). Wouldn't have happened with Clang:)

I didn't try building HS20b03 yet, but g++ (at least version 4.1, 4.4
and 4.5) should be able to detect this. Trying to compile the FAQ
example gives:

t.cpp: In member function ‘void D<T>::g()’:
t.cpp:12:8: error: there are no arguments to ‘f’ that depend on a
template parameter, so a declaration of ‘f’ must be available
t.cpp:12:8: note: (if you use ‘-fpermissive’, G++ will accept your code,
but allowing the use of an undeclared name is deprecated)

If g++ didn't detect it in the hashtable.hpp case, could you file a bug
report for it http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla

Thanks,

Mark