RFR: 8287887: Remove finalization testing from vmTestbase/gc/gctests/PhantomReference/phantom001/phantom001.java

[Kim Barrett]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 05:35:45 GMT, Leonid Mesnik <lmesnik at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Test
> vmTestbase/gc/gctests/PhantomReference/phantom001/phantom001.java🎲
> have verification of finalize() method which is unstable and might fail with -Xcomp.
> 
> The finalization is deprecated for removal in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8274609 and going to be removed.
> 
> So the easiest fix would be just to remove the check.

I think this change is premature.  finalization is deprecated for removal, but removal is expected to take a while.  Until then I think we should continue testing that the interaction works as expected.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/9053