RFR: JDK-8243985 Make source generation by generatecharacter reproducible

Magnus Ihse Bursie magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
Tue Apr 28 09:19:34 UTC 2020


For no really good reason, the generatecharacter buildtool outputs the 
current time in the generated source. While this has no effect on the 
generated class files, it makes gensrc comparison fail between builds.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8243985
WebRev: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ihse/JDK-8243985-make-generatecharacter-reproducible/webrev.01

/Magnus



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