RFR : 8043467 : JEP 233: Generate Run-Time Compiler Tests Automatically

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Tatiana,

really a very impressive piece of work!

Even more impressive how Igor an Vladimir could review this within a few
hours (I always new you're wizards, guys :)

But more seriously: the code doesn't seem to contain any documentation at
all and only a very homeopathic amount of comments. Would it be possible to
add at least some kind of high-level documentation? Otherwise I think it
will be very to grasp what's going on and/or maintain/extend this library
for people not already involved in the project.

It would also be interesting to know if there's any bug you've already
found until now with these tests. If yes, which one and if no, why do you
expect to find bugs in the future?

Finally, the JEP mentions the generation of tests with bytcode sequences
not generated by Javac to stress the VM with legal but uncommon bytecode
patterns. I think this is a very good idea, but at a first glance I
couldn't see any bytcode generation (at least not with
jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm). Will this feature be implemented later?

Thanks,
Volker


On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Tatiana Pivovarova <
tatiana.pivovarova at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Could you please review the code changes for JEP 233: Generate Run-Time
> Compiler Tests Automatically?
>
> The intent of this project is to develop a tool (JIT-tester) which
> randomly generates syntactically and semantically correct code and verifies
> that the results from interpreter is the same the results from compiler.
> Please find more details in the JEP.
>
> JEP : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8043467
> webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev/tpivovarova/jep-233/webrev.00/
>
> Thanks,
> Tatiana
>
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