[lworld+fp16] RFR: 8333852: Allow flat array layout for value based classes. [v2]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 15:59:26 GMT, Bhavana Kilambi <bkilambi at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Does this test works for you ?
>> I faced some failure with this test despite of passing --enable-preview, this works in the standalone (non-jtreg) mode though.  Somehow --enable-preview option is not being passed while loading one of the test harness class (OutputBuffer) which has preview specific minor version. This could be gap in IR framework, but I need to confirm it.
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>> On your query, white listing filters out passing any non-whitelisted option to IR framework.
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> Yes, I also get the same error as you. Somehow the test passes when the `@enablePreview` flag is removed from line #28. I am not sure why though. I can see FP16 vectorized code on aarch64 as well. Thanks.

For now @enablePreview can be removed, since test codes does not contain any feature necessitating  --enable-preview during compilation.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/1154#discussion_r1665209301