[oe] [meta-java][PATCH v2] icedtea: disable error format-overflow for gcc 7

[Richard Leitner]

Hi,

On 8/14/18 10:27 AM, André Draszik wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-08-13 at 17:46 +0200, Richard Leitner wrote:
>> From: Andreas Obergschwandtner <andreas.obergschwandtner at skidata.com>
>>
>> As no patch has been found in debian and hotspot repo for this issue we
>> just disable this warning which was introduced with GCC 7.
>>
>> Also known as: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=881824
> 
> Two points:
> 
> TBH, I'd be a bit wary of this considering the recent fallout from silencing
> compiler warnings. Can you try to address this instead please?

I agree... Therefore I've removed the patch from master-next.

> 
> E.g. OpenJDK-8 has very similar code, so should be possible?
> 
> Also, I have gcc 7.3, yet I don't see that error. Is there something else
> happening?

We have already looked into it more deeply and will probably send a patch
for it next week. Although we are currently not entirely sure why the compiler
is complaining ;-)

regards;Richard.L