On Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:18:47 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaes...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This change adds a check for binutils 2.25 or higher after 8265783. The >> change 8265783 introduced on linux x86_64 a minimum requirement for binutils >> : "Minimum required would be binutils 2.25 where AVX512 support was added >> for Skylake." (see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8265783 ) >> I adjusted the existing check that already checked the binutils version by >> looking at the linker output (we do not look at the assembler version and it >> seems to me we do not really invoke the assembler directly, just indirectly >> via gcc). > > Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Add comment about as version Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4548