Build Breakage with latest HotSpot on gcc 4.7

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 

AFAIR, it was fixed for a time after the May fix.  This seems to be a new regression.
unlink_entry(p) (rather than this->unlink_entry(p)) comes from:

changeset:   3426:e9140bf80b4a
parent:      3410:4d399f013e5a
user:        coleenp
date:        Wed Jun 13 19:52:59 2012 -0400
summary:     7158800: Improve storage of symbol tables

according to hg annotate.

> 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,
> >>
> >
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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

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