Propose to use clang-format to enforce hotspot codestyle

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 3/11/20 9:50 AM, Liu, Xin wrote:
> I plan to have  a .clang-format and correcting styles in the 1st patch. We can bring auto clang-format check to hotspot's makefile in the second patch.  Does it sound like a plan? 

Please make the use of clang optional for the build as otherwise you make
OpenJDK unbuildable on a number of Zero architectures.

Clang isn't unfortunately as widely ported as GCC so any LLVM/Clang dependency
is also a risk of reducing portability.

Thanks,
Adrian

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