RFR 8008201: Add java/lang/Class/asSubclass/BasicUnit.java to the ProblemList

[Chris Hegarty]

I think it is fine to simply exclude the test for now. It can be 
re-enabled whenever the issue is resolved in javac.

-Chris.

On 02/14/2013 11:17 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> If we really care about running the test, javac has an hidden flag that
> can be used to force the old inference scheme (I left that as an
> emergency hatch in cases like these) - so I believe the test can be
> compiled by using
>
> -XDuseLegacyInference
>
> That will essentially force a JDK 7-like behavior of type-inference -
> not really recommended if the source contains JDK 8 features such as
> lambda expressions - but it's not the case here.
>
> Maurizio
>
> On 14/02/13 11:11, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>> This test started failing since the integration of new inference
>> scheme in javac [1]. The javac issue is being tracked by 8008200, so I
>> am simply proposing to add this test to the ProblemList until the
>> underlying issue can be resolved.
>>
>> >: hg diff ProblemList.txt
>> diff -r e6f34051c60c test/ProblemList.txt
>> --- a/test/ProblemList.txt      Wed Feb 13 16:15:09 2013 -0500
>> +++ b/test/ProblemList.txt      Thu Feb 14 11:11:05 2013 +0000
>> @@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/ResetP
>>
>>  # 7196801
>>  java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean/LowMemoryTest2.sh generic-all
>> +
>> +# 8008200
>> +java/lang/Class/asSubclass/BasicUnit.java generic-all
>>
>>
>> ############################################################################
>>
>>
>>
>> -Chris.
>>
>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/langtools/rev/2154ed9ff6c8
>