Improving OpenJDK for FreeBSD

[Andrew Hughes]

On 13:28 Wed 19 Feb 2025, Philip Race wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2/19/25 1:13 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > +1
> >
> > A cursory glance through the PR suggested to me that there is as much
> > a case for the BSD port sharing a directory with Linux as there is
> > MacOS, given the number of cases I saw where it was added to Linux
> > #ifdefs.
> 
> For the desktop code, this BSD port uses X11 (macOS is its own very 
> different thing for desktop).
> So even more reason to share with Linux rather than macOS.
> 
> -phil
> 

Good point. I was looking mainly at the HotSpot code and wondering why
it needed to alter code outside the bsd trees, but, yes, on the
desktop side, it's going to have more in common with AIX & Linux. I
presume there's already a change in there to skip all the Objective C
Mac code.

I also noticed that, unlike MacOS, it supports building with gcc as
well as clang, so this will be the first time some of the code is
exposed to that compiler.

Thanks,
-- 
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