Request for review (XS): 7091366 re-enable quicksort tests

[Bengt Rutisson]

Vladimir,

Thanks for the comments!

You are right. If I remove the parentheses I have to also remove the 
"static" keyword. On the other hand, if I keep the parentheses I can 
also keep the "static" keyword. This compiles with all the compilers for 
both jdk6 and jdk7.

I first made the change the way you suggested, but then I saw that the 
old code (that I had removed with my change) was using the style with 
parentheses and "static" keyword.
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/hsx/hotspot-gc/hotspot/diff/04760e41b01e/src/share/vm/oops/methodOop.cpp

I actually don't know exactly what the difference is or which one is 
more correct. But I went for the one with the parentheses and static 
since that seems to have worked before.

I am happy to change it either way. Any thoughts on which one that is 
more correct?

Thanks,
Bengt

On 2011-09-26 18:35, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Bengt,
>
> You need to remove "static" keyword, otherwise new compilers will 
> complain about combination "extern static" and you don't need 
> parentheses since it is only one method:
>
> -static int test_stdlib_comparator(const void* a, const void* b) {
> +extern "C" int test_stdlib_comparator(const void* a, const void* b) {
>
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 9/26/11 6:06 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is a small hs23 fix. I hope that we have most of the hs22 work 
>> behind us, so I thought I'd send this out for review.
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/7091366/webrev/
>>
>> Background:
>> One of the tests in the quicksort implementation that I did before 
>> the summer uses the stdlib::qsort() to verify that my
>> implementation sorts the same way that the stdlib does. The tests 
>> needs to pass a function pointer to stdlib::qsort()
>> and it seems that the older Solaris compilers that JDK6 uses requires 
>> the function to be declared extern "C" for this to
>> work.
>>
>> John Coomes recently had to make a quick fix to get this to build 
>> with JDK6 at all. He disabled the tests all together.
>> With my fix now I am re-enabling the tests and declaring the call 
>> back function extern "C".
>>
>> I have tested this with jprt and "-relase jdk6". Seems to build fine 
>> now.
>> http://prt-web.us.oracle.com//archive/2011/09/2011-09-26-082420.brutisso.hs-gc-qsfix//JobStatus.txt 
>>
>>
>> With the recent discussions about the Hotspot express model, it seems 
>> like we might not be supplying this code into JDK6
>> after all, but I would still like to get this fixed.
>>
>> CR:
>> 7091366 re-enable quicksort tests
>> http://monaco.us.oracle.com/detail.jsf?cr=7091366
>>
>> Jesper already looked at the changes, but I need at least one more 
>> review.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt