(11) RFR (S) JDK-8198640: VS2017 (LNK4281) Link Warning Against Missed ASLR Optimization

[Christian Tornqvist]

Sounds like a good plan :)

Thanks,
Christian

> On Feb 23, 2018, at 3:22 PM, Lois Foltan <lois.foltan at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/23/2018 3:18 PM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Lois,
>> 
>> Why do we link jvm.dll with -base?
> Hi Christian,
> It is not clear to me why we do, so I was going to follow up with an RFE to investigate & suggest the removal of -base if unnecessary.
> Lois
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Christian
>> 
>>> On Feb 23, 2018, at 3:11 PM, Lois Foltan <lois.foltan at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Please review this fix to ignore linker warning (LNK4281).  This is a new linker warning generated by VS2017 v15.5 to "to point out any 64-bit image specified to link with a lower than 4GB base address doesn't get best ASLR optimization". The Hotspot jvm.dll is specifically linked with -base:0x8000000.  As recommended by https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/160970/upgrading-from-154-to-155-throw-lnk4281-warning.html, this linker warning can be suppressed with -ignore.
>>> 
>>> open webrev at http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lfoltan/bug_jdk8198640/webrev/
>>> bug link https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198640
>>> 
>>> Testing (hs-tier1-3 & jdk-tier1-3) in progress
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lois
>>> 
>>> 
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