RFR 8056039: Hotspot does not compile with clang 3.4 on Linux

[Staffan Larsen]

Removed code is good code. Reviewed.

/Staffan

On 26 aug 2014, at 12:17, Mikael Gerdin <mikael.gerdin at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> In order to get clang's (sometimes) more helpful error messages when compiling 
> I'd like to fix the few remaining places where clang fails to compile Hotspot.
> 
> The culprit in this case was "local_vsnprintf" in os_linux.cpp, an unused 
> function which wasn't annotaded with the PRINTF_FORMAT macro.
> Since the function was unused I decided to remove it instead, then I found it 
> in the other os_*nix.cpp files as well.
> 
> Digging into the Teamware history it looks like it first appeared in the 
> Solaris port because vsnprintf did not exist on some very old versions of 
> Solaris, so it was dynamically looked up through dlsym. For a few years 
> vsnprintf has been present in the Solaris header files, so I think it's safe 
> to remove the workaround now some 17 years later.
> 
> I also need a SCANF_FORMAT for an internal file, so I added that to 
> globalDefinitions.
> 
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/8056039/webrev/
> Buglink: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8056039
> 
> Thanks
> /Mikael
> 
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