RFR JDK-8193479: test/hotspot/jtreg/compiler/codegen/Test6896617.java fails after JDK-8184947

[David Holmes]

Hi Sherman,

On 14/12/2017 10:01 AM, Xueming Shen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Please help review the change for JDK-8193479
> 
> issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193479
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8193479/webrev
> 
> The internal interface ArrayEn/Decoder for ISO8859_1 has been removed
> because it is no longer used by StringCoding class, but it appears it is
> being used by hotspot Test6896617.java to verify the SSE instructions
> on x86. The proposed change here is to simply restore the internal 
> interface
> ArrayEn/Decoder for ISO8859_1 to avoid blocking hotspot testing for now.

It would be better to just add the test to the ProblemList.txt IMHO.

Thanks,
David

> thanks,
> Sherman
> 
>