Review request for OPENJDK6-40: OpenJDK6-b32 does not compile the testcase that Oracle JDK 6u45 compiles fine

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/10/2014 04:32 PM, Nikolay Gorshkov wrote:
> I see your point that we chose a risky way and remember discussions
> around
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-December/002195.html
> that we had in the past when the fix for OPENJDK6-35 was in review.
> 
> Well, my opinion is that this risk was taken when we decided to integrate
> OPENJDK6-35. Unfortunately, we have consequences, and now we need to deal
> with them. Luckily, the problem is known and resolved by a simple fix.
> We have verified it by all available means and currently are not aware of
> any other regressions. In my opinion, this approach (moving forward, fixing
> regressions) is more preferable than moving to pre- JDK-6650759 state where
> we had known incompatibilities.

I admit that you're probably right, but I still need an answer to my
question about how important this patch is.

Andrew.