Analysis on JDK-8022321 java/lang/ref/OOMEInReferenceHandler.java fails intermittently

[Alan Bateman]

On 29/01/2014 19:10, Mandy Chung wrote:
>
> On 1/29/2014 5:09 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
>>
>> Since I don't know what should be the correct behaviour of javac, I 
>> can leave the Reference.java changes as proposed since it compiles in 
>> both cases. Or should I revert the change to declaration of local 
>> variable 'q' ? 
>
> I slightly prefer to revert the change to ReferenceQueue<? super 
> Object> for now as there is no supertype for Object and this looks a 
> little odd.  We can clean this up as a separate fix after we get 
> clarification from compiler-dev.
I see Peter has posted a question to compiler-dev on this and it can 
always be re-visited once it clear why it compiles when both Reference 
and ReferenceQueue are in the same compilation unit.

-Alan