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

[Xueming Shen]

David, Martin,

webrev has been updated to fix the test directly.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8193479/webrev

Assume I would need hotspot guys' help to review and push into hs repo?

thanks,
Sherman


On 12/13/17, 4:52 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> It would add more confusion to a something that's already difficult to 
> understand.  It's OK as a temporary measure, but I don't think we want 
> product code just to enable tests in hotspot.  Can the hotspot folks 
> modify their test, perhaps making this code part of the test?
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 4:01 PM, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen at oracle.com 
> <mailto:xueming.shen at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi
>
>     Please help review the change for JDK-8193479
>
>     issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193479
>     <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8193479>
>     webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8193479/webrev
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Esherman/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.
>
>     thanks,
>     Sherman
>
>
>