Integrated: 8317998: Temporarily disable malformed control flow assert to reduce noise in testing

Thu Oct 12 09:54:41 UTC 2023

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:40:33 GMT, Tobias Hartmann <thartmann at openjdk.org> wrote:

> [JDK-8303951](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8303951) added a "malformed control flow" assert before a harmless but unexpected compilation bailout in C2. It now triggers quite frequently (see [JDK-8308392](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8308392) and linked bugs). Let's disable it temporarily to reduce noise in our testing. The issues can still be reproduced/investigated by checking for the corresponding compilation bailout.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tobias

The patch is straight-forward.

Do we already have a RFE that adds the assert back in? We should not lose track of this.

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Marked as reviewed by epeter (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16163#pullrequestreview-1673750757