RFR: 8211296: Remove HotSpot deprecation warning suppression for Mac/clang

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Tue Oct 2 23:30:45 UTC 2018


> On Oct 2, 2018, at 6:10 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> The archaeology is getting too hard. :(

No kidding!

> Yes but you will need to go through a full round of testing, not just tier 1-3, before being reasonably confident the workaround is not needed. I'd hate to see this break things "in the wild" just because we don't have adequate test coverage.
> 
> Other opinions welcomed.

I was planning to hit it with tier1-8 and possibly other things if I can find them.
JCK tests too; I saw some instructions for running those in mach5 recently.

That all assumes that static build actually works at all; it doesn’t look like we
test that configuration these days, so who knows what bit rot may have set in.




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