[m-dev.] promoted ROTDs

[Peter Wang]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 12:54:13 +1000 (AEST), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
> 
> The C# and Java backends don't bootcheck at the moment because they
> generate code that goes into a loop (or goes really slowly).
> (I think the minimum criterion for stable should be that all the
> non-Erlang backends bootcheck.)
> 
> I started looking at this the other week, but haven't really had time
> to continue; according to jdb the problem is occurring in
> lexer.string_get_quoted_name; the last working rotd was 2018-05-29,
> so presumably it was broken by one of the commits between that
> and rotd-2018-06-03.

commit bbe0f28f3 "Copy packed arguments all at once."

make_java_csharp_arena_diff shows *many* field assignments being deleted
after that commit, but that commit actually should not have any effect
on either java or csharp grades as arguments aren't packed in those
grades.

Peter