RFR: 8221503: vmTestbase/nsk/jdb/eval/eval001/eval001.java failes with: com.sun.jdi.InvalidTypeException: Can't assign double[][][] to double[][][]

[Brent Christian]

Hi, Egor

On 6/20/19 8:49 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 20/06/2019 15:49, Egor Ushakov wrote:
>>
>> any news on https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212117?
>> I do not see any activity on this :(
 >
> cc'ing Brent as he has picked up this issue. I think we want to fix this 
> and David has a patch in one of the linked issues. As it's changing long 
> standing behavior in a sublte way then it will likely need a 
> compatibility knob, the details of which need to be worked out before 
> the CSR can be submitted.
> 

Myself (and others) have been looking into this as time has allowed. 
Some additional inconsistencies have been uncovered that should also be 
investigated.  However, I think in the near term, we can proceed with a 
more focused fix to address 8212117 in particular.

-Brent