Reviewer needed - deletion of regression tests compiler/6987555/Test6987555.java and compiler/6991596/Test6991596.java

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 08:38 Mon 09 May     , Kelly O'Hair wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what to say here. It's part of hotspot, and will likely always be part of hotspot going forward.
> I understand the need to not have them, but I'm concerned that the files will just keep coming back each time
> the openjdk6 hotspot sources get upgraded.
> 
> Marking the tests @ignore might be better, unless someone else has a better idea?
> 

That sounds ok to me.  I'm not even sure why we need that, unless the functionality in HotSpot relies
on missing class libraries.

Can someone provide more detail on this?

> -kto
> 
> On May 5, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Pavel Tisnovsky wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I think that two regression tests, namely
> > compiler/6987555/Test6987555.java and compiler/6991596/Test6991596.java
> > should be removed from OpenJDK6 because these tests checks JSR-292
> > functionality and IMHO this functionality is not part of JDK6.
> > 
> > I prepared webrev containing changes (test deletion) which is available at:
> > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ptisnovs/jtreg-remove-tests-6987555-6991596/
> > 
> > Can anybody please review these changes?
> > 
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Pavel Tisnovsky
> 

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