Re: JDK-8060068/JDK-8067904 DriverManager clean-up introduces bootstrap problem that breaks production drivers

2015-04-09 Thread Robert Gibson
the driver being loaded manually and through the Service Provider mechanism which causes the dysfunction. Regards, Robert On Friday, 3 April 2015, 14:07, Robert Gibson wrote: Thanks Alan, Note that the repro given in my mail is a bit simpler than the current defect description, especially if

Re: JDK-8060068/JDK-8067904 DriverManager clean-up introduces bootstrap problem that breaks production drivers

2015-04-03 Thread Robert Gibson
Thanks Alan,Note that the repro given in my mail is a bit simpler than the current defect description, especially if you don't have access to the "MyFace"  JDBC driver.Regards,Robert On Friday, 3 April 2015, 13:04, Alan Bateman wrote: On 03/04/2015 10:33, Robert Gibson wr

JDK-8060068/JDK-8067904 DriverManager clean-up introduces bootstrap problem that breaks production drivers

2015-04-03 Thread Robert Gibson
Hi there, We are doing some early testing with JDK 9 and have discovered that the changes made to java.sql.DriverManager back in November/December have introduced an incompatibility with our JDBC driver (that we have used unchanged since Java 6) when it is pre-loaded with Class.forName (as reco

Re: JDK 9 RFR of 8058679: More bad characters in BigIntegerTest

2014-09-18 Thread Robert Gibson
Sorry about that, let's blame my crappy webmail ;) (Strange that the patch appears fine in the mail archives and the webrev?) Robert On Thursday, 18 September 2014, 3:18, Alan Bateman wrote: On 17/09/2014 21:48, Brian Burkhalter wrote: > Hello bad characters, > > Issue:https://bugs.openjdk

Re: RFR 8057793 BigDecimal is no longer effectively immutable

2014-09-15 Thread Robert Gibson
Thanks for the bug report, > > -Joe > > On 9/9/2014 1:30 AM, Robert Gibson wrote: >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I came across a case in BigDecimal division where the dividend ends up >> getting mutated, which is rather strange for a seemingly

Re: RFR 8057793 BigDecimal is no longer effectively immutable

2014-09-15 Thread Robert Gibson
ide could cause a problem > in setScale. > > Thanks for the bug report, > > -Joe > > On 9/9/2014 1:30 AM, Robert Gibson wrote: >> >> >> Hi there, >> >> I came across a case in BigDecimal division where the dividend ends up >> getting mut

RFR 8057793 BigDecimal is no longer effectively immutable

2014-09-09 Thread Robert Gibson
Hi there, I came across a case in BigDecimal division where the dividend ends up getting mutated, which is rather strange for a seemingly immutable class! (It's a subset of the cases where the Burnikel-Ziegler algorithm is used, I haven't done the analysis to find out under which exact condi