another java 8 strangeness

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

Tom,

We've sent a request for the Graal project to be included in the publicly visible OpenJDK bug tracking system according to [1]. After a positive response, we will create public JIRA issues for Graal-related bugs and feature enhancements.

- thomas

[1] https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/general/JBS+Overview

On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:59 PM, "Deneau, Tom" <tom.deneau at amd.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> ________________________________________
> 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
>