Ignore the java code of course, but in all the *.c, *.h, *.cpp, and *.hpp files
I'd look for uses of the symbols: i386, i586, sparc, sparcv9, amd64, x86, x64,
and ia64.
I suspect you won't find many, but you may get lots of false hits.
I'd be happy to help, and in fact someone on the Sun side would have to help to
verify
that the misc. closed native files we have don't also have a problem with this.
But if someone could do the initial openjdk source scan and preliminary
analysis,
I'd be happy to work with that person to get the changes integrated.
-kto
Ted Neward wrote:
I won't speak for them, but based on Kelly's comments, you may be the guy on
the spot to do that verification. :-)
Isn't open source fun? :-)
I would suggest this: do a grep looking for where that macro is used, and
see if removing it entirely has any detrimental effects. That is, pull it,
do a build, then run the jtreg test harness and see what breaks. (I don't
know of any other comprehensive unit test suite for the JDK beyond jtreg.)
If that passes, diff the sources, send 'em to... Kelly? This list? Somebody
else or someplace else? And others can verify that they're not seeing
breakage either.
That's how I'd do it, anyway, in the absence of some more official guidance
from Sun.
Ted Neward
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-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Thalinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:20 PM
To: Ted Neward
Cc: 'build-dev'
Subject: RE: RFC: architecture define probably masks variable names in
header files
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:14 -0800, Ted Neward wrote:
This may be an area where you have to implement the fix and submit it
as a
patch, because I can see the developers at Sun not having the
bandwidth to
take time away from the other things they're working on to take care
of this
themselves--they're horribly underresourced (if you'll pardon the
verbization) from what I understand.
What change would you suggest, and how deeply would it ripple through
the
code base?
Well, the problem I see is, I don't know the historical reasons how
stuff was done and I don't know where these defines are used. A grep
can help here, but the knowledge of a long-year Sun employee would
definitely help a lot.
Of course I can try to make a patch, but definitely I'll need help to
verify that what I've done is correct (btw. IcedTea people will also be
of great help here).
- twisti
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