> 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
