RFR : 8202322: AIX: symbol visibility flags not support on xlc 12.1 (original) (raw)

Baesken, Matthias matthias.baesken at sap.com
Thu Apr 26 14:13:38 UTC 2018


Hello , could you please review this small adjustment to the symbol visibility compilation settings on AIX ? Currently we use XLC 12.1 to compile JDK on AIX .

However XLC 12.1 does not support the "-qvisibility=hidden" setting currently set on AIX. It was introduced with XLC 13.1 . Christoph found some info about it here :

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aix-symbol-visibility-part2/index.html

Setting it only generates hundreds of warnings in the build log , warnings look like this : XlC12.1

bash-4.4$ xlC -qversion IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V12.1 (5765-J02, 5725-C72) Version: 12.01.0000.0019

bash-4.4$ xlC -qvisibility=hidden sizeof.c -o sizeof_aixxlc 1506-173 (W) Option visibility=hidden is not valid. Enter xlC for list of valid options.

Compare to XLC13.1

bash-3.00$ xlC -qversion IBM XL C/C++ for AIX, V13.1 (5725-C72, 5765-J07) Version: 13.01.0000.0008 bash-3.00$ xlC -qvisibility=default sizeof.c -o sizeof_aixxlc bash-3.00$ xlC -qvisibility=hidden sizeof.c -o sizeof_aixxlc

So it is better to avoid setting these flags when using xlc12.1 . Please review :

Bug :

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202322

Change :

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbaesken/webrevs/8202322/

Best regards, Matthias



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