8156989: Trailing empty element in classpath ignored

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Mon May 16 20:11:36 UTC 2016



On 05/16/2016 12:36 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> >For tests then Jon will be pushing the updated MineField to jdk9/dev soon. We need to go over the new options and get javac and the runtime consistent. I think we want it so that empty elements in the new options are ignored, leaving class path for legacy reasons.
> Yes we should add new tests to ensure the javac and runtime consistency of the new options.
> Mandy

To give context, the "minefield" term refers to a specific complex test 
in the langtools repo to compare option handling between java and javac.

The conceptual minefield has forked.   I have been working on a new 
minefield framework to support minefield-type tests for all the new 
module-related JDK 9 options, but it does not adapt well to the original 
JDK 5-era MineField test.  So that test will continue, in some modified 
form, and separately, we will have a new test framework to support new 
tests and test cases.

-- Jon


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