another java 8 strangeness

[Deneau, Tom]

Doug or others --

Just wanted to clarify this recommendation.
Are you saying don't use java 8 if you're trying to use igv, or are you saying don't use java 8 for any graal-related development?  (As mentioned, up until now we haven't had any problems with java 8 except using it with eclipse).

I was not able to open
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4mflnqf3k919blk/GRAAL-420.pdf

-- Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Simon [mailto: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