On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 02:28:08 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18586 > > @kimbarrett I've been doing things to permit gcc/Windows, not clang. clang > has too many different distributions on Windows for me to settle on one, and > generalising all of them to be able to compile with any of the Windows clang > distributions seamlessly and without issues sounds like a nightmare :P gcc on > the other hand has just 2: MSYS2 MINGW64 with ucrt (Which is the one I'm > working on) and standalone gcc Windows builds that link to ucrt > > I haven't sent a cleanup in this area because I thought my changes were too > specific to gcc/Windows, and wouldn't help much with HotSpot in general. I've > learnt from my mistakes in the past where I caused reviewers pain in > reviewing my admittedly selfish changes to HotSpot :( > That said, if it is requested of me, I can commit some cleanups to this file. > What do you think? @TheShermanTanker It depends on the details, of course. I think there are lots of possible cleanups in this vicinity that have little or nothing to do with gcc/Windows specifically, though might help there too. And yeah, I misremembered that it was not clang/Windows but rather gcc/Windows you were working on. But the same points largely apply here. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18536#discussion_r1548868243
