Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:56:44 -0000 (UTC) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= <bkoenig@alpha-tierchen.de> To: "Nick Johnson" <freebsd@spatula.net> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jdk16 and -fno-tree-vrp Message-ID: <62959.192.168.1.2.1194901004.squirrel@webmail.alpha-tierchen.de>
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Nick Johnson wrote: > I don't think it's merely a question of compiling successfully. There are > cases where one can successfully -compile- the JDK, but the resulting > executable behaves strangely and fails simple tests. > > Merely testing compilation is insufficient. It is necessary to test > functionality also. In this case compilation is already a kind of functionality testing, because GCC compiles a Java compiler which compiles a lot of Java source code, i.e. class libraries and so on. A vastly broken GCC compiler could create a totally broken Java compiler and we would not be able to finish the installation of the JDK. - Please don't get me wrong. I don't disagree with you. It is true that we need even more test cases. Björn
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