[foreign] RFR:8223105

[Henry Jen]

Hi,

Please review a webrev[1] for JDK-8223105[2]. This is an gcc extension[3](also supported by clang) and likely observed in system headers.
I don’t find same feature for Windows, so I cannot have the test case for Windows.

A different approach to enable alias is used for Windows(and is a portable way) using macro, but this is not the same and generated Java interface will have real name for it. Perhaps that can be a separate RFE to add alias when a macro definition is a single identifier match to a variable or function.

Cheers,
Henry

 
[1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/panama/8223105/0/webrev/
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8223105
[3] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.2.0/gcc/Asm-Labels.html