RFR: 8254129: IR Test Framework to support regex-based matching on the IR in JTreg compiler tests [v7]

[Christian Hagedorn]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 19:12:08 GMT, Igor Ignatyev <iignatyev at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I've reviewed all the files but `examples` and `tests`, for them I'd actually recommend you to put `examples` into `tests` (possible in a subdir), and just update readme to say that the examples can be found in test directory.

Thanks a lot Igor! I'll consider to move the `examples` as well tomorrow.

> test/lib/jdk/test/lib/hotspot/ir_framework/TestVMException.java line 34:
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>> 32:     TestVMException(String exceptionInfo) {
>> 33:         super("There were one or multiple errors. Please check stderr for more information.");
>> 34:         this.exceptionInfo = exceptionInfo;
> 
> why can't this info be stored as `Throwable::message`?

There were errors in some cases when the message was too long. Thus, I used a separate field for it which I then print to the stderr.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3508