RFR: 8262895: [macos_aarch64] runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointers.java fails with 'Narrow klass base: 0x0000000000000000' missing from stdout/stderr

Wed Feb 22 23:38:23 UTC 2023

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:14:29 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The test runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointers.java does not reliably pass on Mac OSX on either x86 or aarch64, so it is disabled for that platform.
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> test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/CompressedOops/CompressedClassPointers.java line 327:
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>> 325:         // given an arbitrary address, that address occasionally collides
>> 326:         // with where we would ideally have placed the compressed class
>> 327:         // space. Therefore, macOS is omitted for now.
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> This really belong as an `@comment` in the test comment block now - but somewhat shorter.

Omit the "for now" in the comment also since I don't think we're going to start supporting macosx.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12234