RFR (L): 8062370: Various minor code improvements

[Stefan Särne]

Hi Thomas,

There are 2 parts to this answer.

1. Today there is a test utility similar to what you describe called VM 
Internal Tests inside HotSpot.
      See the jtreg test invokes it as a starting point: 
hotspot/test/sanity/ExecuteInternalVMTests.java

2. We are doing a proof of concept for a xunit based C++ unit test 
framework for the VM. The JEP is forthcoming.

I recommend you to wait for the latter.
There are several engineers who does already.

Best regards,
/Stefan

Thomas Stüfe skrev 2014-11-07 10:08:
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> In the SAP JVM we have regression tests for C/C++ code, similar to jprt,
> but on C function level. Nothing fancy, just some big test functions which
> test our C APIs for regressions like this. That code is just compiled into
> the hotspot and can be executed with a command line switch, but gets
> excluded in release builds.
> Is there something similar for the OpenJDK? If yes, I would provide test
> functions for jio_snprintf. If no, would it be worth contributing?
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