RFR(M): 8039407 : Regression test needed for JDK-8015396

[Vladimir Kozlov]

David,

David,

You don't need /othervm if there are no additional command flags.

I still want to see in the comment which hex numbers corresponds to 
which doubles.

Thanks,
Vladimir

On 4/25/14 1:02 PM, David Chase wrote:
> new webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~drchase/8039407/webrev.02/
>
> Modified to run interpreted (bug was observed in the field with -Xint)
> but to iterate 10,000 times, then sleep for a second, then 10 more times
> in case it is liked to compilation, and two versions of the test method
> are tried, one strictfp, the other not.
>
> The bug has never been reproduced by us.
>
> David
>
> On 2014-04-17, at 3:32 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> Can you use next style for the comment?
>>
>> /*
>> *
>> */
>>
>> And it would be good to see corresponding hex values in the comment which you use later in the code.
>>
>> The comment needs more explanation what it is all about and why you are listing particular Windows machines configurations.
>>
>> This test will test only Intepreter and not compiled jited code. You need at lest 3 iterations for compiled code to be used even with -Xcomp. I would suggest to create separate methods and call them from main() in a loop.
>>
>> About bug itself. Was you able to reproduce the failure? It is not clear from report.
>