JDK 9 build with GCC 6.1.1

[David Holmes]

On 27/06/2016 5:40 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 27/06/16 00:25, David Holmes wrote:
>> Not sure how the crash relates to the gcc 6.6.1 compilation issues.
>
> Maybe it's related to -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks and HotSpot's
> habit of dereferencing null pointers.  I made a start on some of these
> issues but ran out of time and enthusiasm.  It'd be great to have a
> campaign to get rid of HotSpot's undefined behaviour.

I wasn't aware that we have any reliance on gcc doing any kind of "null  
pointer check" ??

David

> Andrew.
>