RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from xlc16 on AIX

[David Holmes]

Hi Matthias,

On 4/02/2019 9:36 pm, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
> Hi  David,  I  want to follow your suggestion �� .
> I adjusted the comment , see  globalDefinitions_xlc.hpp  .

Looks good. Thanks.

> Additionally I removed a  strange ifdef  handling pre-xlc10 versions  that are not useful  today any more for OpenJDK
> ( we  most likely cannot build jdk/jdk  with xlc versions < 10).

Can't comment on that bit. :)

Cheers,
David


> New webrev :
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8218136.2/
> 
> 
> Best regards, Matthias
> 
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
>> Sent: Freitag, 1. Februar 2019 13:49
>> To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; 'hotspot-
>> dev at openjdk.java.net' <hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net>;
>> 'magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com' <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com>
>> Cc: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>> Subject: Re: RFR : 8218136: minor hotspot adjustments for xlclang++ from
>> xlc16 on AIX
>>
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> On 1/02/2019 10:36 pm, Baesken, Matthias wrote:
>>> New webrev :
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8218136.1/
>>>
>>> - adjusted  globalDefinitions_xlc.hpp
>>
>> I don't think it makes sense to keep the comment which was obviously
>> copied from the gcc file:
>>
>>    // On Linux NULL is defined as a special type '__null'. Assigning
>> __null to
>>     // integer variable will cause gcc warning. Use NULL_WORD in places
>> where a
>>     // pointer is stored as integer value.  On some platforms,
>> sizeof(intptr_t) >
>>     // sizeof(void*), so here we want something which is integer type,
>> but has the
>>     // same size as a pointer.
>>
>> Rather something like:
>>
>> // Some platform/tool-chain combinations can't assign NULL to an integer
>> // type so we define NULL_WORD to use in those contexts. For xlc they
>> // are the same.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
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