Re: RFR: JDK-8223335: Compare baseline builds on linux are failing

Erik: ... A call to configure from make requires a cd to CONFIGURE_START_DIR first. Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8223335 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8223335/webrev.01 Looks good. Tim

Re: gcc FORTIFY_SOURCE application security flags

* Matthias Baesken: > I would prefer to get a hs_err file, do you know a way to get this in > context of the gcc flag _FORTIFY_SOURCE ? __fortify_fail should eventually raise SIGABRT. So if you install a handler for that signal, you should be able to generate hs_err file. __fortify_fail is diff

RFR: JDK-8223335: Compare baseline builds on linux are failing

Since JDK-8221851, the COMPARE_BUILD baseline builds have started failing. This seems to be caused by the same issue as affected reconfigure when introducing that change. A call to configure from make requires a cd to CONFIGURE_START_DIR first. Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-822

RE: gcc FORTIFY_SOURCE application security flags

Hello Kim and Erik, thanks for pointing me at https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8050803 https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8130017 I noticed too that the flag needs to be set together with optimization flags (which is pointed out in these 2 bugs). Performance seems to be not much