[foreign-abi] RFR: 8228762: import CallingSequenceBuilder unit tests
Maurizio Cimadamore
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Wed Jul 31 14:03:08 UTC 2019
Yeah - that test is very old and it was one of the few tests we had on
the ABI when I started working on that.
I think we have much better (and more portable tests) now, and this can
go (perhaps even from foreign branch).
Cheers
Maurizio
On 31/07/2019 03:23, Jorn Vernee wrote:
> I'm okay with dropping it. ArgumentClassTest actually pre-dates me
> being a part of the project :) (I added CallingSequenceTestBase not
> too long ago in this area though, when I added the Windows version of
> CallingSequenceTest)
>
> Jorn
>
> On 2019-07-31 10:10, Nick Gasson wrote:
>> Hi Maurizio,
>>
>>> Looks good, but I'm a bit puzzled by the ArgumentClassTest; in general
>>> the test seems pretty obscure - but there's also the problem that the
>>> test is ultimately SysV specific, so it will only stress the
>>> ArgumentClassImpl specific to SysV. Not sure this test is robust enough
>>> (as the other) to make the cut, to be honest.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>
>> This one got included because I took the whole test/jdk/foreign/abi
>> directory from the foreign branch. I agree it's not as useful as the
>> main CallingSequenceTest which should test the merge method indirectly
>> anyway. I'm happy to take it out of this patch if Jorn agrees too? (I
>> think he added it originally.)
>>
>>
>> Nick
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