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

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/12/2017 00:01, 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.
I can't tell if this update makes use of the SSE instructions or not.

Would it be better to just exclude the test by adding to the 
ProblemList.txt and create a hotspot/compiler bug to get it updated to 
work with the new implementation?

-Alan