RFR: 8367282: FORBID_C_FUNCTION needs exception spec consistent with library declaration

[Martin Doerr]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:58:31 GMT, Kim Barrett <kbarrett at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review this change to FORBID_C_FUNCTION to make the exception specs of
> the forbidding declarations match up with the exception specs of the
> associated library declarations. This needs to account for different platform
> libraries either having or not having exception specs. It's needed because,
> after switching to C++17, some compilers complain about some differences in
> the exception specs.
> 
> Also removed the workaround for JDK-8367051, which should no longer be needed
> after this change.
> 
> Hoping someone will test the aix-ppc port. @MBaesken or @TheRealMDoerr ?
> 
> Testing: mach5 tier1, GHA sanity checks (nearly finished)
> Locally (linux-aarch64) built with clang, which failed without the JDK-8367051
> workaround.

AIX:

forbiddenFunctions.hpp:61:23: error: exception specification in declaration does not match previous declaration
   61 | FORBID_C_FUNCTION(int sprintf(char*, const char*, ...), noexcept, "use os::snprintf");
      |                       ^
/usr/include/stdio.h:325:12: note: previous declaration is here
  325 | extern int      sprintf(char *__restrict__, const char *__restrict__, ...); 
      |                 ^

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27180#issuecomment-3274289565