On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 20:07:15 GMT, Alexander Zvegintsev <azveg...@openjdk.org>
wrote:
>> test/jdk/java/awt/print/PrinterJob/PrinterDevice.java line 52:
>>
>>> 50: public class PrinterDevice implements Printable {
>>> 51:
>>> 52: static volatile boolean failed = false;
>>
>> Is it really needed? In all the cases where you assign `true` to the
>> `failed` field, you also explicitly throw an exception, which is enough to
>> fail the test.
>
> It is to test the "the macOS printing implementation was swallowing
> exceptions it should not."
Not sufficient if something catches the exception as used to happen
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16773#discussion_r1416222101
