Heads up: Integrating lambda-related changes into jdk8/jdk8

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 16/07/13 23:52, maurizio cimadamore wrote:
> FYI,
> those changes seem to trigger a spurious failure when running 
> langtools regression tests on a Windows machine [1]. We have been 
> working to isolate the problem and put together a fix which I am 
> testing as we speak. If the experiment is successful we can decide 
> what's the best course of action (i.e. direct push to master) in order 
> to minimize the number of teams that will be affected by this issue.
Quick update - the experimental nightly build I ran over the 
lambda-repository with the fix for 8013638 gave good results on Windows 
machine; it appears the issue is correctly addressed by the fix. Please 
advice as to what I should do next to have this fix into master.

Thanks
Maurizio
>
> Maurizio
>
> [1] - https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8013638
>
>
>
> On 16-Jul-13 8:42 PM, Alejandro E Murillo wrote:
>>
>> Later today I plan to push the hs25-b41 snapshot into jdk8 master [1] 
>> <http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/>,
>> along with the fix for 8016281 
>> <http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8016281>. This push includes 
>> lambda-related changes that will
>> create lambda-related incompatibilities with class files compiled 
>> with earlier
>> JDK 8 versions. See [2] 
>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-July/010449.html> 
>> for more details.
>>
>> Once the changes have been integrated, the hotspot, langtools and jdk
>> repos must match - i.e., either all must have these changes or not 
>> have any of them.
>> A JDK with mismatched repos may build, but some lambda-related 
>> functionality
>> might not work properly (again, see [2] 
>> <http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-July/010449.html> 
>> for details of the symptoms).
>>
>> After we integrate, If you do pull, make sure to pull all: hotspot, 
>> langtools and jdk,
>> and to build all
>>
>>
>> [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/
>> [2] 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/2013-July/010449.html
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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