MLVM hotspot will not compile with GCC 4.3.2

[Attila Szegedi]

Are there any drawbacks to compiling with GCC 4.0.1? ('Cause that's  
what appears to be coming bundled in Apple developer tools on Mac OS X)

Attila.

On 2009.07.08., at 6:05, John Rose wrote:

> 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.