RFR: 8325482: Test that distinct seeds produce distinct traces for compiler stress flags

Saranya Natarajan snatarajan at openjdk.org
Thu Jul 31 07:22:21 UTC 2025


The existing test (`compiler/debug/TestStress.java`) verifies that compiler stress options produce consistent traces when using the same seed. However, there is currently no test to ensure that different seeds result in different traces.

### Solution
Added a test case to assess the distinctness of traces generated from different seeds. This fix addresses the fragility concern highlighted in [JDK-8325482](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8325482) by verifying that traces produced using N (in this case 10) distinct seeds are all not identical.

### Changes to `compiler/debug/TestStress.java`
While investigating this issue, I observed that in `compiler/debug/TestStress.java`, the stress options for macro expansion and macro elimination were not being triggered because there were fewer than 2 macro nodes. Note that the  `shuffle_macro_nodes()` in` compile.cpp` is only meaningful when there are more than two macro nodes. The generated traces for macro expansion and macro elimination in `TestStress.java` were empty. I have proposed changes to address this problem.

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Commit messages:
 - Initial Fix

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26554/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=26554&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8325482
  Stats: 127 lines in 2 files changed: 126 ins; 0 del; 1 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26554.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/26554/head:pull/26554

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26554


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