RFR: 8161145: The min/max macros make hotspot tests fail to build with GCC 6

[Kim Barrett]

> On Jun 2, 2017, at 12:13 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> 
> Erik -- I think this is worth fixing in 9, given that GCC 6 is no longer
> new and the sustaining lines of 9 will be around for a while.  Would you
> mind pushing it to 9, from which it will automatically be forward-ported
> to 10?  I'd be happy to approve the fix request.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Mark

Thanks for supporting the suggestion of fixing in 9.  I just added the fix request.

> 
> 
> 2017/6/1 9:44:06 -0700, erik.osterlund at oracle.com:
>> Thank you Andrew.
>> 
>> /Erik
>> 
>>> On 1 Jun 2017, at 18:25, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 1 June 2017 at 12:17, Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-06-01 12:34, Erik Österlund wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Per,
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2017-06-01 11:49, Per Liden wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 2017-06-01 10:18, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On May 31, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Erik Österlund
>>>>>>>> <erik.osterlund at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Excellent. In that case I would like reviews on this patch that does
>>>>>>>> exactly that:
>>>>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8161145/webrev.00/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Looks good, but can we please add a comment here describing why we're
>>>>>> doing this. It's not obvious :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you for the review. Here is a webrev with the added comment:
>>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8161145/webrev.01/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Looks good, thanks!
>>>> 
>>>> /Per
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Looks good to me too, and will be great to finally see this fixed.
>>> 
>>> It'll also need backporting to 9 now.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> -- 
>>> Andrew :)
>>> 
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