RFR 8055284: sanity/WhiteBox.java fails with NPE

Erik Helin erik.helin at oracle.com
Mon Aug 18 13:30:29 UTC 2014


Looks good, Reviewed.

Thanks,
Erik

On 2014-08-18 15:30, Mikael Gerdin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sanity/WhiteBox.java was mistakenly modified by a recent mass-update of
> jtreg whitebox tests to allow them to pass with the -Xverify:all flag.
> The problem is that sanity/WhiteBox.java is a special test which
> provides its own version of the sun.hotspot.WhiteBox class.
>
> The change is therefore not applicable to the test and the nested
> WhiteBoxPermission class does not exist, causing the test to fail with
> an NPE because of the missing class file.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mgerdin/8055284/webrev.0/
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8055284
>
> Thanks to Dmitry Fazunenko for putting the suggested fix into the bug
> comments, I'll put his name as a contributor on the changeset.
>
> /Mikael


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