another java 8 strangeness

[Doug Simon]

In the meantime, here's a snapshot of the internal JIRA issue:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4mflnqf3k919blk/GRAAL-420.pdf

-Doug

On Oct 25, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Thomas Wuerthinger <thomas.wuerthinger at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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
>> 
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