On Dec 19, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Mike Swingler wrote: > It would be worth filing a bug into JDK8 to start compiling the Mac OS X port > with clang from the start, so you'll be able to use a supported compiler > baseline for the projected timeframe when JDK8 will be productized.
I'll file an RFE, changing the jdk repo is probably not the issue as much as hotspot, and everything needs to be built with the same compiler, so all repos need to line up for this change. I've been involved in enough compiler updates and changes to know that it is never as easy as you think, especially when it comes to hotspot. The hotspot generated code needs to play well with the compiler generated code at runtime, and we would want a hotspot engineer involved in this change. But I agree, we need to do it. I'll make it a P2 but not sure who can do the work. I filed 7123056 -kto
