On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 05:59:34 GMT, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:

>>> One other comment on this is that the proposed change should mean that the 
>>> tests no longer need to run with --enable-preview.
>> 
>> You've lost me all over again.
>> Why did these two tests need that in the first place and why would they no 
>> longer need it ?
>> 
>> My best guess is that it was added so that the tests deliberately provoked 
>> using continuations to verify everything worked but that with the change 
>> there's no point since it won't load any classes that use them .. ?
>
>> My best guess is that it was added so that the tests deliberately provoked 
>> using continuations to verify everything worked but that with the change 
>> there's no point since it won't load any classes that use them .. ?
> 
> That's right. These tests triggered the initialization of classes that depend 
> on the VM being started with --enable-preview. With the proposed change here, 
> the classes will be loaded but not initialized so it won't execute code that 
> needs preview features to be enabled.

Thanks, @AlanBateman ! Let's wait and see if @prrace  approves the change.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9704

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