RFR (XXS): 6771058: TEST_BUG: java/lang/ref/Basic.java may fail with -server -Xcomp

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/18/2012 6:11 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> On 19/10/2012 10:58 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/GcFinalization.java 
>>
>
> That code uses runFinalization in places which means it is not 
> exercising the primary finalization mechanism. But looking further 
> into the whole thing I don't think it really makes much difference 
> semantically afterall. All that changes is which thread executes the 
> finalizer - the object comes from the same ReferenceQueue regardless.
>
> Which means that runFinalization() will really only help if the main 
> finalizer thread is delayed executing another finalizer - which for 
> some tests may be caused by compilation of the finalize method.
>
> So Chris/Mandy: I think the original suggested fix is fine here.

Thanks David. I looked at the Finalizer class and also concur that what 
Chris has is fine.

Chris - do you have the committer right to push to jdk8/tl?  If not, I 
can push it for you.

Mandy