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

Langer, Christoph christoph.langer at sap.com
Thu Apr 26 14:38:04 UTC 2018


Hi Matthias,

to me the change in principal looks good.

I'm wondering if it is possible to do a comparison like xlc < 13 (e.g. extract major number before the first dot, then compare numerically) - but maybe it is too complicated and the current single version compare suits our needs ?

Best regards Christoph

From: Baesken, Matthias Sent: Donnerstag, 26. April 2018 16:14 To: 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>; ppc-aix-port-dev at openjdk.java.net; core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net Cc: Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com>; Simonis, Volker <volker.simonis at sap.com> Subject: RFR : 8202322: AIX: symbol visibility flags not support on xlc 12.1

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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