another java 8 strangeness

[Doug Simon]

On Oct 25, 2013, at 12:28 AM, "Deneau, Tom" <tom.deneau at amd.com> wrote:

> I had built all of graal with java 8 and except for the aforementioned CompareAndSwap tests, all our other tests were passing.
> 
> I wanted to use igv.  But the GUI would not start.
> 
> But when I went back and built graal with java 7, mx igv seemed to work fine.
> Is this a known problem?

Yes. We have an internal JIRA issue for migrating to JDK8 but we are not there yet. Until it's officially supported, I recommend staying with JDK7 for Graal development.

-Doug