b17

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 2009/9/30 Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com>:
>   
>> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> Now that HotSpot 14 is merged, are we going to have a b17 release?
>>>
>>>       
>> Real soon now :-)
>>
>>     
>>> I thought this is what we were waiting on, but it seems more
>>> changesets are being added
>>> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/langtools/rev/f754eab3d93a)
>>> without any public discussion on the mailing list.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> There is another javac fix to go back in b17 and a recently added test needs
>> to be moved.
>>
>>     
>
> Ok, are these backports from OpenJDK7? I haven't seen anything on the
> list other than the commits.
>
>   
>> I'd also like to see a port of your DeoptimizeALot fix since I think it
>> affects one of the tests currently in the OpenJDK 6 HotSpot repo.
>>
>>     
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/6886353/webrev.01/
>
> Same bug, same bug ID, different patch.  The two tests affected in
> hs17 aren't present in hs14, but a test that's not in hs17 is.
>   

Please push this change.

>   
>> The preliminary tests I've run on b17 look good.
>>
>>     
>
> What tests?  JTreg or something else?
>   

jtreg.

> I think IcedTea6 has support for building against hg.  We should do
> that before the release.
>   

Sounds prudent.

> When b17 is released, can we have a summary page like that published
> for the OpenJDK drops:
> http://download.java.net/jdk7/changes/jdk7-b72.html ?
> These make it much easier to work out what's changed when problems
> occur.  Xiomara produces these AFAIK.
>   

I'll ask her how she produces them.

-Joe