RFR/RFA (8u-dev) 8080524: [TESTBUG] java/lang/Class/getDeclaredField/FieldSetAccessibleTest.java fails on compact profiles

[David Holmes]

Hi Ivan,

On 25/06/2015 4:11 AM, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This test fails when running on compact1 and compact2, since it tries to
> access all the jars from "sun.boot.class.path".
> The easiest approach would be to include it in the group, which requires
> at least compact3.

Easy yes but is it correct? This is a basic core reflection test that 
should be executable on any compact profile. There are three things here 
that concern me:

a) why does boot.class.path include non-existent jar files?

b) why don't non-existent jar files simply increment the "skipped" 
count, which is not considered a test failure?

c) what changed to make this start failing?

Thanks,
David

> BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080524
> WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/8080524/00/webrev/
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Ivan