> On May 16, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Martin's MineField test has been excluded for some time, one reason is that 
> it exercised -Xbootclasspath/p and so doesn't work with JDK 9. Jon is 
> cleaning up this test via JDK-8156989 and lo behold, it finds a corner case.
> 
> The corner case is where the last element of the class is the empty string. 
> Long standing behavior is to treat empty elements on the class path as the 
> working directory. The issue crept in because the implementation uses 
> String.split and is easily fixed:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8156989/webrev/
> 

This looks fine.

> For tests then Jon will be pushing the updated MineField to jdk9/dev soon. We 
> need to go over the new options and get javac and the runtime consistent. I 
> think we want it so that empty elements in the new options are ignored, 
> leaving class path for legacy reasons.

Yes we should add new tests to ensure the javac and runtime consistency of the 
new options.
Mandy

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