Build Breakage with latest HotSpot on gcc 4.7

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 
> Yes, I will check it in.  I will look to see if someone filed a bug.

Many thanks.

>  If
> I do a apt-get install g++ I don't get a new version of gcc.  How new
> is
> this version of gcc?
> 
> uadmin at carrs:/home/cphillim/carrs/hg$ g++ --version
> g++ (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 4.4.3
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
> is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> 

GCC 4.7.0 released [2012-03-22] (from gcc.gnu.org)

$ gcc --version
gcc (Gentoo 4.7.1) 4.7.1
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Already in at least Fedora & Gentoo.
Deepak Bhole already submitted some patches to fix other issues during its
development cycle.

Is this from an long-term support release of Ubuntu?  4.4.x is now pretty
old.  As GCC releases are approx. yearly, this would be the 2009 release.

That branch itself has been updated to:

GCC 4.4.7 released [2012-03-13]

> Thanks,
> Coleen
> 
> On 7/31/2012 1:56 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The following changes:
> >
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/hotspot/webrev.04/
> >
> > were required to get HotSpot to build again with GCC 4.7 (solutions
> > suggested by the gcc errors).  Builds of both the build and
> > hotspot-comp
> > forest showed the same issue.
> >
> > Can we get this fix in ASAP please?
> >
> > Thanks,
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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