RFR: JDK-8200375: Change to GCC 7.3.0 for building Linux at Oracle (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Thu Apr 5 00:31:10 UTC 2018


I presume build folk are aware that older compilers produce more portable binaries. My own rule of thumb is to use 5 year old compilers - battle tested, well aged, but haven't turned to vinegar yet.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> wrote:

This patch changes the default devkit used to produce builds for Linux x64 at Oracle. The new devkit is based on GCC 7.3.0.

Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8200375/webrev.01/ Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8200375 /Erik



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