8u242 Rampdown: Bug Triage

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 18/12/2019 00:38, Hohensee, Paul wrote:
> Comments on four of these:
> 
> 1. JDK-8041620: "Solaris Studio 12.4 C++ 5.13 change in behavior for
>     placing friend declarations within surrounding scope".
> 
> Just deletes an unused C++ class. Can be deferred to 8u252.
> 
> 2. JDK-8056313: "TEST_BUG: java/util/Timer/NameConstructors.java fails
>     intermittently"
>     
> Test fix. Can be deferred to 8u252.
> 
> 4. JDK-8143925: "enhancing CounterMode.crypt() for
>     AESCrypt.implEncryptBlock()"
>     
> This is a performance enhancement, but the patch strictly speaking depends on previous patches such as the one for 8140779. The latter, however, is not tagged as backported by Oracle, so the Oracle 8143925 backport has been customized to avoid it. Imo too risky for 8u242.
> 
> 7. JDK-8171974: "Fix for R10 Register clobbering with usage of
>     ExternalAddress"
> 
> Appears to be a fix for 8150767, which is another performance enhancement that's not tagged as backported to 8u. 8150767 depends on 8143925 (#4 above).
> 
> Paul
> 

Sorry, I should have been more explicit in my summary. Everything is now
deferred to 8u252, unless an 8u-critical-request is made.

I mentioned that explicitly for those Oracle-u241/2 bugs that actually
had posted patches, but it should also be assumed for other patches
still pending & anything in Oracle-u241/2 that hasn't even made an
appearance on the lists, as they're at an even earlier stage in the process.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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