RFR [11] 8207838: AArch64: Float registers incorrectly resture in JNI call

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/14/2018 05:07 PM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> That answers Aleksey's question as to why use all those threads.
> However, it does not address (what I think is) his point that the test
> may give false positives because exceptions will not happen in the main
> thread and hence not derail the test.
> 
> An ExecutorService is the Rolls-Royce option. A simpler solution is to
> set a static flag before starting the threads then if any of them enters
> the block where the throw happens have it clear the flag. The test can
> assert on the flag being set after all the joins complete (finesse is
> all very well, Aleksey, but brute force is so cheap and easy ;-).

I get that, but with plenty of threads all of them are likely to be
blocked at some point.  However, I'll have a look at changing the test.

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Andrew Haley
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