RFR: 8255072: [TESTBUG] com/sun/jdi/EATests.java should not fail if expected VMOutOfMemoryException is not thrown

[Richard Reingruber]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 05:06:43 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Earlier you said:
> 
> > Note also that the OOME is successfully generated during object
> > reallocation a couple of times before (search "run args" in attachments
> > to the JBS issue).
> 
> So I suppose in that case it's ok if this one test case allows for no OOME just as long as other test cases still require it.

With that I wanted to state that the probability to get the OOME is not too bad
for meaningful testing. It should be the same for the 3 test cases.

What about repeating a test case if the expected OOME is not raised and let it
fail after 10x retries?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/775