[Request for review and bugid] Gervill - ModelStandardIndexedDirector fails on invalid ranges.

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 13 April 2010 17:29, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> Alex Menkov wrote:
>>
>> Joe, Andrew,
>>
>> sound fixes have a bit tangled "patch logistics" :)
>> Karl pushes changes into openjdk6, then I forwardport them into jdk7 (to
>> minimize QE I push sound fixes in batches, so often fixes go to jdk7 with a
>> delay).
>> openjdk6 repo does not use jcheck extension, so I fix whitespace
>> normalization issues only pushing changes into jdk7.
>
> About jcheck, OpenJDK 6 does use jcheck, but it is configured differently
> than in JDK 7.  For OpenJDK 6, jcheck is lax on both repeated bug ids and
> whitespace.  The former was necessary for some HotSpot merge issues and the
> latter was necessary to capture the full public history of OpenJDK 6.
>
> -Joe
>

Any reason we can't enforce the whitespace check on new OpenJDK6
patches?  This would help keep 6 & 7 in sync.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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