On 07/01/2014 11:15 AM, Nikolay Gorshkov wrote: > From another side, we did extensive testing of the build of > {OpenJDK 6 + 6650759 backport} using all JDK 6 tests available > to us, both general and javac specific. We didn't find any > single failure caused by the backport. So, in practice we > don't see any indication of regressions or incompatibilities > caused by the backport, and such, honestly, we see no reason > for backing out the backport. > > Please, let us know if you are aware of a test suite that > shows regressions or any kind of problems introduced by > this changeset.
I'm not at all sure that this is a sound argument. If there was a test that showed regressions, you surely would have been told about it already. I don't know that this patch is bad; I don't know that is is good. I do know that it was rejected. On the other hand, it was accepted for IcedTea. I don't know why it was accepted; maybe that was before the patch was rejected upstream. Andrew Hughes, do you know? Andrew.