Hi Kim, > for XLC 16. Any information about "some C++14 features"? I haven't > found any detail on that. we will user our internal connections to IBM to find out :)
Best regards, Goetz. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Barrett <kim.barr...@oracle.com> > Sent: Donnerstag, 4. Oktober 2018 23:01 > To: Lindenmaier, Goetz <goetz.lindenma...@sap.com> > Cc: hotspot-dev developers <hotspot-...@openjdk.java.net>; build-dev > <build-...@openjdk.java.net>; core-libs-dev@openjdk.java.net > Subject: Re: JEP JDK-8208089: Implement C++14 Language Features > > > On Oct 4, 2018, at 2:59 AM, Lindenmaier, Goetz > <goetz.lindenma...@sap.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I appreciate this is handled in a JEP and well communicated! > > > > XLc, the compiler we use for AIX, might be a bottleneck here. > > > > But we currently have no compiler-constraints by products on > > our aix port of jdk12 (for jdk11 we must stay with the current > > compiler xlc 12 which does not support C++11, and jdk11 even > > should be compilable with aCC by HP for which we won't > > get new versions!) > > > > We will update our compiler for jdk/jdk to the most recent Xlc > > as soon as possible. > > To my current knowledge, Xlc 14 was dropped, and xlc 16 > > is to be released early 2019. It is supposed to support > > C++ 11, and also some C++ 14 features. > > The information I've been able to find mostly discusses Linux support > for XLC 16. Any information about "some C++14 features"? I haven't > found any detail on that. > > I am working toward being able to target this for JDK 12, but realize > that might not be reachable. Windows is already there, because of > VS2017 support. There are a couple of minor patches needed for gcc > and clang based builds; Linux-x64 and MacOSX-x64 have had a fair > amount of ad hoc testing. We (Oracle) only switched over the > Solaris/sparc builds to the necessary compiler version (Oracle Studio > 12.6) very recently, and there are some issues still to be dealt with > there. And the currently used XLC is just not up to the change.
