RFR: JDK-8322572: AllocationMergesTests.java fails with "IRViolationException: There were one or multiple IR rule failures." [v3]

[Tobias Hartmann]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:57:27 GMT, Cesar Soares Lucas <cslucas at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this PR to fix a test in `AllocationMergesTest.java`. The test was failing intermittently because of a random value used as parameter was causing some randomization in the shape method's IR graph and consequently the optimization tested wasn't happening.
>> 
>> Tested this locally on Mac, Win and Linux x86_64.
>
> Cesar Soares Lucas has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fix copyright header date.

Looks good to me too.

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Marked as reviewed by thartmann (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17469#pullrequestreview-1835864434