RFR: 8340205: Native linker allows MemoryLayout consisting of only PaddingLayout [v10]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2024 14:25:21 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/jdk/java/foreign/TestLinker.java line 188:
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>>> 186:             assertEquals(e.getMessage(),
>>> 187:                     "The padding layout x2 was preceded by another padding layout x1 in [b1x1x2i4]");
>>> 188:         }
>> 
>> Doesn't `assertThrows` return the exception instance? (which could be used to check the message as well).
>
> Unfortunately not in testng. In JUnit 5 it does.

Testng should have this as well, since 6.9.5: https://www.javadoc.io/doc/org.testng/testng/latest/org/testng/Assert.html#expectThrows(java.lang.Class,org.testng.Assert.ThrowingRunnable) jtreg current bundles testng 7.3.0

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21041#discussion_r1829514720