Build Breakage with latest HotSpot on gcc 4.7

[David Holmes]

On 1/08/2012 7:21 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> This seems fine to me.
>>
>> Weird thing is I'm certain I've seen this patch before! But now I
>> can't find the email, or any trace of it. Frustrating.
>>
>
> Could it have been:
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2012-May/005945.html
>
> which was the same failure, but in a different file (TreeDictionary
> rather than hashtable.{c,h}pp?

No it was:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2012-July/004153.html

It is strange that these gcc failures are coming in piece-meal. I would 
have expected everyone to hit the full set of failures.

David


>> David
>>
>> On 1/08/2012 3:56 AM, 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,
>>
>