RFR: Solaris 64-bit images

[Chris Hegarty]

On 21/05/2012 15:43, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> ....
>> Chris - I looked at the changes and they look okay to me. I also grabbed
>> the patch and it built a solaris-x64 image as I expected. I'm happy to
>> push the changes for you. One small thing is that we have a couple of
>> tests (launcher and JDI tests come to mind) that launch via amd64/bin or
>> sparcv9/bin. We might need to add them to the ModulesProblemList.txt.

I wonder why these tests invoke the 64-bit launcher directly? I notice 
most of them use the Process API to launch the java process. Is there an 
issue with launching with 'bin/java -d64' (and using the dual mode 
support of the launcher, if required), and redirecting the output or 
waiting for the process? Otherwise, I don't see why the test don't 
simply launch 'bin/java'.

I guess what I'm asking is if these tests should be changed (to use 
bin/java) in the jdk8 mainline, rather than added to the problem list ( 
could be added temporarily of course)?

-Chris.

>
> Oh, I didn't notice these tests. Let me look into these and for now I'll
> add them to the ModulesProblemList.txt.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chris.
>
>>
>> -Alan.