RFR 8171988: backout of 8062389, 8029459, 8061950

[Jeff Dinkins]

Thanks Peter!

Can you give us an ETA of when you think you’ll be able to put back?

thanks,

-jeff

> On Dec 26, 2016, at 3:35 AM, 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/>
> 
> 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? 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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