Seems reasonable. Though it's sad to not be able to turn the tests on when they could be run.
I have heard that jtreg will be sprouting a new capability which would allow this. Mike On Apr 18 2014, at 10:23 , Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On Apr 16, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhal...@oracle.com> > wrote: > >> Patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8027595/webrev.00/ > > > I modified the patch to add @ignore to StringConstructorOverflow as the test > will always just catch an OOME anyway without the large -Xmx setting. > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8027595/webrev.01/ > > Thanks, > > Brian