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

[Peter Levart]

On 01/30/2014 03:46 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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

I Just commited the version with no change to ReferenceQueue<Object> 
line to jdk9/dev. If there is a bug in javac and the code would not 
compile as is, the change to this line should be committed as part of 
javac fix, right?

Regards, Peter