On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Le 01/08/2014 16:59, Stephen Nelson a écrit :
>
>> I wonder if the newer JDK is triggering this instability
>> in the tests? Otherwise with this amount of instability, bugs would
>> have been raised against upstream when this code was current.
>
> If the failure occurs with Java 8 it might be caused by the new
> implementation of the HashMap class. The order of the entries is not
> guaranteed in an HashMap but it was rather stable and tests were written
> assuming the order wouldn't change. This is no longer true with Java 8,
> and the tests have to be fixed.
>

Hi Emmanuel

I thought for a moment that might be it. However, I just checked my
build config and it was openJDK 7 (7u65-2.5.1-4) running in pbuilder.

Cheers

Stephen


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