RFR: 8370064: Test runtime/NMT/CheckForProperDetailStackTrace.java fails on Windows when using stripped pdb files [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:18:32 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When using stripped and not full pdb files on WIndows, the test CheckForProperDetailStackTrace.java misses source information (but this is not surprise with those much smaller pdb files; so probably we should not rely on having the source info available).
>> error output is :
>> 
>> 
>> java.lang.RuntimeException: Expected source information missing from output
>> at CheckForProperDetailStackTrace.main(CheckForProperDetailStackTrace.java:145)
>> at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DirectMethodHandleAccessor.invoke(DirectMethodHandleAccessor.java:104)
>> at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:565)
>> at com.sun.javatest.regtest.agent.MainActionHelper$AgentVMRunnable.run(MainActionHelper.java:335)
>> at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1474)
>
> Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Windows: add hasExternalSymbolsStripped to WhiteBox, use it in our test

make/hotspot/lib/CompileJvm.gmk line 163:

> 161:   ifeq ($(SHIP_DEBUG_SYMBOLS), public)
> 162:     JVM_CFLAGS += -DHAS_STRIPPED_DEBUGINFO
> 163:   endif

But IIUC building the stripped pdb files doesn't necessarily mean you have deployed them in your image.

Also isn't there a way to define file specific flags so this only gets set for whitebox.cpp?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27899#discussion_r2451097941