RFR (L): 8062370: Various minor code improvements

[Thomas Stüfe]

Thank you, that sounds good. I will wait then.

Kind Regards,
Thomas
On Nov 7, 2014 11:37 AM, "Stefan Särne" <stefan.sarne at oracle.com> wrote:

>
> 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:
>
>>
>> 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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