Small change to build Graal with Lambda repo
Eric Caspole
eric.caspole at amd.com
Fri Apr 26 10:03:08 PDT 2013
Thanks Doug,
OK, I removed that file in this one:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ecaspole/reflection_args_for_lambda_jdk/webrev.01/
Regards,
Eric
On 04/26/2013 10:26 AM, Doug Simon wrote:
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> On Apr 26, 2013, at 3:52 PM, "Caspole, Eric" <Eric.Caspole at amd.com> wrote:
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>> Hi everybody,
>> I have been experimenting to build Graal against the jdk 8 lambda tip repo. It seems the args for sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass() changed between JDK 7 and 8.
>>
>> This one line change allows the build to succeed and I can use this JDK 8 Graal build in NetBeans to run the Junits.
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ecaspole/reflection_args_for_lambda_jdk/webrev.00/
>>
>> I am not sure there is a JDK 8 branch for Graal, can this be integrated without breaking JDK 7?
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> I don't think so. However, if this is the only thing preventing one using the latest JDK 8, I vote we just delete the test. The alternative is to use a bunch of reflection to make the right call based on the underlying JDK which kind of defeats the intention of the JTT tests which should only stress a limited number of features.
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> -Doug
>
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