Withdrawn: 8346107: Generators: testing utility for random value generation

Emanuel Peter epeter at openjdk.org
Fri Dec 20 06:56:42 UTC 2024


On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:56:45 GMT, Emanuel Peter <epeter at openjdk.org> wrote:

> For verification testing, it is often critical to generate "interesting" values, to provoke overflows, NaN, etc. And to generate these values in the correct distribution to trigger certain optimizations.
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> I would like to start a collection of such generators, that can then be used in testing.
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> The goal is to grow this collection in the future, and add new types. For example `byte`, `char`, `short`, or even `Float16`.
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> This will be helpful for the Template framework [JDK-8344942](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8344942), but also other tests.
> 
> Related PR, for value verification: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/22715

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22716


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