RFR(S) : 8012337 : Change Whitebox implementation to make absence of method in Whitebox.class not fatal

[Mikael Gerdin]

Igor,

On 2013-04-17 12:11, Igor Ignatyev wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Please review patch.
>
> Problem:
> If there is some method that presences in native part of whitebox, but
> absences in java side, we get 'j.l.NoSuchMethodError' exception

The intended use of is of course that whitebox.cpp and WhiteBox.java are 
in sync since they are in the same hg repository.

I understand that some feel that they need to copy WhiteBox to some 
other test suite and I find this change acceptable but unfortunate.

>
> Fix:
> Batch registration of WB functions was replaced with one by one
> registration
>
> Testing:
> JPRT of sanity tests and tests that use WhiteBox: runtime/interned,
> compiler/whitebox
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iignatyev/8012337/webrev.00/

It's too bad that you need a shell script here but I don't see any way 
around it.

I'm ok with you pushing this.

/Mikael

> jbs: https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8012337