RFR(S): 8136931: more fine-grained condition checking for BMH species creation

[Paul Sandoz]

On 22 Sep 2015, at 19:10, Michael Haupt <michael.haupt at oracle.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> please review this change.
> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8136931
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mhaupt/8136931/webrev.00
> 
> This is actually a change to improve error reporting for identifying the issue causing https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8131129, turning assertions into actual checks. As the issue 8131129 is intermittent and cannot be easily reproduced, the scope of additional tracing should be minimal. Enabling all assertions, even for the BoundMethodHandle class, is not helpful.
> 

Does enabling assertions makes the problem harder to reproduce, and/or you need some more readable output?


> This patch will be removed once the issue itself has been addressed.
> 

+1

Suggest adding a comment to stating this is a temporary property that will be removed:

  54     static final boolean OBSERVE_BMH_SPECIES_CREATION;

Paul.