another java 8 strangeness

[Deneau, Tom]

Doug --

Are these internal JIRA issues viewable by folks outside Oracle?

Is this JDK8 issue something recent and does it go beyond just igv?  We have been using JDK8 with graal for at least 6 months now with no problems (except of course not being able to use Eclipse). 

-- Tom

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From: Doug Simon [doug.simon at oracle.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:42 PM
To: Deneau, Tom
Cc: graal-dev at openjdk.java.net
Subject: Re: another java 8 strangeness

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