They still need review and testing, and if
the area is sensitive or complex that
can be quite time consuming on all ends of it. Which would all also be
the case even if an
experienced contributor provided the fix.
-phil.
Anyway, thanks a bunch for responding; I was worried that no one would.
*Fr
P4 is the default JBS priority, so sometimes it just means no one
figured out the true priority.
But in general P4 bugs could be open for years, or even never get fixed.
The priority is also partially an assessment of where it falls as a
priority for the JDK developers.
A user of JDK may have a
On 4/24/24 4:24 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote:
That is a good question. libiconv is used only on macOS and AIX, for a
few libraries, as you say. I just tried removing -liconv from the
macOS dependencies and recompiled, just to see what would happen.
There were three instances for macOS: libsp
Having just a very few sources of wisdom on this in the JDK test suites
is a good idea because
then any tests that might be affected by policy changes would be easily
spotted.
I say this despite an instinctive reticence to rely on "frameworks" and
"utilities" in jtreg tests.
As resources allow