MLVM hotspot will not compile with GCC 4.3.2

[John Rose]

Yes, that fails for our in-house linux builds too.  Sorry!  I just  
pushed a fix to mlvm.  -- John

On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Chanwit Kaewkasi wrote:

> I upgraded the compile to GCC 4.3.2 and failed to rebuild hotspot.
> The compiler reported as follow:
>
> cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors
> /opt/openjdk/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/klass.cpp: In member
> function 'virtual char* Klass::signature_name() const':
> /opt/openjdk/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops/klass.cpp:505: error:
> deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
>
> Some methods need declaring 'const char*' instead of 'char*'. Here's a
> patch to correct them.