On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:23:18 GMT, Pavel Rappo <[email protected]> wrote:

>> When searching output for multiple strings it is easy to misexpress your 
>> intent, which could make a failing test pass. Such cases can be caught and 
>> reported to the programmer.
>> 
>> For example, for this search to succeed it is sufficient for the output to 
>> consist only of the `"error: bad"` string:
>> 
>> 
>> checkOutput(..., "error:", "error: bad", ...)
>
> Pavel Rappo has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Address feedback and more
>   
>   Search for confusing strings using indexOf. Detect confusing strings across 
> multiple calls to checkOutput. Remove the test which would otherwise have to 
> become very complicated.

I've pushed one more commit, ee5c92f, to bring this PR to a safepoint and 
suspend the work. This is because of the unexpectedly big number of test issues 
that this PR has uncovered. I think that before resuming the work on this PR, 
we need to examine and fix each of the affected tests.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4811

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