Guidance about binary / data files for JTREG tests

Tue Apr 29 08:28:38 UTC 2014

On 29 Apr 2014, at 09:22, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2014, at 7:53 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Firstly, I was informed that there are not supposed to be binary files in the jdk9/jdk/test tree. My webrev listed in the above post includes one such file, a GZIPped text file of prime numbers. Apparently this file as-is should not be checked in to the repository.
>> 
> 
> Why?

A really old bug gives some insight:
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6934214

-Chris.

> 
> Paul.