RFR (M) : JDK-8016029 : test runtime/6878713/Test6878713.sh failed

[Mikhailo Seledtsov]

Hi Remi,

  Thank you for advice.

Misha

On 7/18/2013 4:35 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
> One ASM developer here,
> Mikhailo, you can use the ASMifier that creates, from a class file, a 
> Java file that will generate the class file
> (you will just have to change the imports to use the ASM version 
> embedded in the jdk).
> see http://asm.ow2.org/doc/faq.html#Q10
>
> cheers,
> Rémi
>
> On 07/18/2013 09:59 PM, John Rose wrote:
>> Good; thanks, Misha.  — John
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Mikhailo Seledtsov 
>> <mikhailo.seledtsov at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi John, Coleen,
>>>
>>>    John, thank you for the advice on using 
>>> jdk.internal.org.objectweb.asm.*. I did not know about this capability.
>>> Hopefully we can use this approach in this particular test, as well 
>>> as other similar tests. This could be a great help for rewriting the 
>>> bytecode based tests in a source form. In case if for some reason it 
>>> does not work out, I will include the jasm as a separate file, with 
>>> my comments.
>>>    Unfortunately the source jasm file was not available for this 
>>> test, only a jar file. This is the case for many other similar 
>>> byte-code based tests. I did use tools to disassemble the jar into a 
>>> jasm, in order to look at it and to understand what the code does. 
>>> Hence, the only jasm I could include is the reverse-engineered one; 
>>> however I agree that it is still better than having binary in the 
>>> source, since I can include some comments with jasm code explaining 
>>> what it does.
>