RFR: 8275717: Reimplement STATIC_ASSERT to use static_assert

[Stefan Karlsson]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:57:06 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> LGTM.
> 
> How do the asserts at build time look like?
> 
> I'm in favor of retaining the macro since it enables us to add support for non-compliant compilers and keeps backporting simple.
> 
> Thanks, Thomas

Thanks for reviewing!

This is one of the warnings:

In file included from /Users/runner/work/jdk/jdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/asm/register.cpp:1:
In file included from /Users/runner/work/jdk/jdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/precompiled/precompiled.hpp:34:
In file included from /Users/runner/work/jdk/jdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/classfile/classLoaderData.hpp:28:
In file included from /Users/runner/work/jdk/jdk/jdk/src/hotspot/share/memory/allocation.hpp:29:

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6077