Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[Harald Eilertsen]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 08:31:57AM +0100, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi Harald,
>
> In addition to what David wrote:
>
> - PPC changes: we already deal with AIX and Linux, and adding BSD is
> getting a bit #ifdef heavy.

Yeah, as mentioned in the response to David, the PPC support isn't the
primary focus anyways. So I think it should be fine to leave that for a
later effeort, if at all.

> - the bigger issue to me is the amount of large ifdef sections added to
> os/bsd and bsd/<arch> : I think its time to separate MacOS from BSD and
> make both first-class OSes.

I agree with this. Especially the os_bsd files are pretty hard to follow
as it is now. One problem is that I don't have an OS X machine for
testing that side of changes to this part. Not an unsovable problem,
though.


Harald Eilertsen
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