Analysis of Mauve failures - The final chapter

Thu Apr 4 16:45:00 GMT 2002

> From: Mark Wielaard [mailto:mark@klomp.org]
> > !java.lang.reflect.Array.newInstance
> Ugh, not fun. Running by hand also hangs, but turning on the -debug or
> -verbose flag makes it run... When not giving any flags it only prints
> Needed to allocate blacklisted block at 0x824b000
> The test actually tries to force a OutOfMemoryError exception which
> might explain this. But the Object.clone() test also seems to do this
> and that one just works.
>Mark -
All tests that allocate large objects should ideally be run with the
environment variable GC_NO_BLACKLIST_WARNING defined. That will get rid of
the message. The occurrence of the warning is often less than 100%
deterministic, and that's expected. Was there an issue here beyond the
warning?
Hans