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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:25:00 -0400
From: "Geir Magnusson Jr." <geir@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [classlib][test]Is this test necessary?
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But lets not lose the OOM test - that would be good for DRLVM to have...

geir

Paulex Yang wrote:
> So I will rewrite it to *really* test the constructor if no one objects.
> 
> Paulex Yang wrote:
>> The test case 
>> below(org.apache.harmony.luni.tests.java.lang.OutOfMemoryErrorTest) 
>> generally needs > 250 seconds on my thinkpad:
>>      public void test_Constructor() {
>>        // Test for method java.lang.OutOfMemoryError()
>>        try {
>>            StringBuffer large[] = new StringBuffer[100000];
>>
>>            for (int i = 0; i < large.length; i++)
>>                large[i] = new StringBuffer(1000000);
>>        } catch (OutOfMemoryError e) {
>>            return;
>>        }
>>        fail("No error generated");
>>    }
>>
>> IMO it is not a unit test of OutOfMemoryError constructor like its 
>> name, actually what it tries to test is the JVM memory management
>>
>> I suggest to remove this testcase, at least it can be written like 
>> below to get same error thrown much quickly:
>>
>>    StringBuffer large = new StringBuffer(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
>>
> 
> 


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