RFR 8171988: backout of 8062389, 8029459, 8061950

[Chris Hegarty]

> On 26 Dec 2016, at 09:35, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I've been told that the latest change I pushed causes some tests to fail, so I prepared a backout patch for 8062389, 8029459, 8061950:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/Class.getMethods.new/backout.09/webrev.01/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/Class.getMethods.new/backout.09/webrev.01/>

I just grabbed the webrev patch, applied it to a local repo, then
compared that against a repo that had been updated to the 
change prior to your push. They are identical, so this appears
to be an accurate anti-delta.

Maybe file a new bug, or just make it clear in the synopsis of
8171988 that it is an anti-delta.


> From the stacktrace of the bug report, it seems an early initialization issue with VarHandle(s) involved. Can you shed some light into what tests are failing?

I’ll post a few comments in 8171988 with sample failures.

-Chris.

> But first let us backout that change.
> 
> Regards, Peter
> 
> On 12/26/2016 10:09 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
>> Hi Jeff,
>> 
>> I'm taking a look at this...
>> 
>> Regards, Peter
>> 
>> On 12/26/2016 06:14 AM, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
>>> Hi Peter - 
>>> 
>>> I just received mail from out SQE manager, saying that your last changeset has caused our test harness to hiccup.  I don’t have much more detail besides the below bug, but I’m wondering if you could do us a huge favor and roll your change back for now while it’s debugged (and so we can get our automated tests going again).
>>> 
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171988 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8171988>
>>> 
>>> thanks!
>>> 
>>> -jeff
>>> 
>> 
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