[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8207011: Remove uses of the register storage class specifier

[Jan Kratochvil]

On Mon, 27 May 2024 06:39:23 GMT, Jan Kratochvil <jkratochvil at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Make jdk8 natively buildable on a recent Linux system (tested Fedora 40 = gcc-14.1).
> Cherry-pick was not clean but removing **register** is a simple task.
> There will be 8 backports needed.

There should be `-std=gnu++98` but for some reason some (all?) source files do not use it, to be investigated more.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/508#issuecomment-2133301621