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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2013, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
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+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
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+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
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+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8231827
+ * @summary Ensure the LV table entries are generated for bindings
+ * @modules jdk.jdeps/com.sun.tools.classfile
+ * @compile -g --enable-preview -source ${jdk.version} LocalVariableTable.java
+ * @run main/othervm --enable-preview LocalVariableTable
+ */
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.lang.annotation.*;
+import java.util.*;
+import com.sun.tools.classfile.*;
+
+/*
+ * The test checks that a LocalVariableTable attribute is generated for the
+ * method bodies containing patterns, and checks that the expected
+ * set of entries is found in the attribute.
+ *
+ * The test looks for test cases represented by nested classes whose
+ * name begins with "Pattern".  Each such class contains a method
+ * with patterns, and because the test is compiled
+ * with -g, these methods should have a LocalVariableTable.  The set of
+ * expected names in the LVT is provided in an annotation on the class for
+ * the test case.
+ */
+//Copied from: test/langtools/tools/javac/lambda/LocalVariableTable.java
+public class LocalVariableTable {
+    public static void main(String... args) throws Exception {
+        new LocalVariableTable().run();
+    }
+
+    void run() throws Exception {
+        // the declared classes are returned in an unspecified order,
+        // so for neatness, sort them by name before processing them
+        Class<?>[] classes = getClass().getDeclaredClasses();
+        Arrays.sort(classes, (c1, c2) -> c1.getName().compareTo(c2.getName()));
+
+        for (Class<?> c : classes) {
+            if (c.getSimpleName().startsWith("Pattern"))
+                check(c);
+        }
+        if (errors > 0)
+            throw new Exception(errors + " errors found");
+    }
+
+    /** Check an individual test case. */
+    void check(Class<?> c) throws Exception {
+        System.err.println("Checking " + c.getSimpleName());
+
+        Expect expect = c.getAnnotation(Expect.class);
+        if (expect == null) {
+            error("@Expect not found for class " + c.getSimpleName());
+            return;
+        }
+
+        ClassFile cf = ClassFile.read(getClass().getResource(c.getName() + ".class").openStream());
+        Method m = getMethodByName(cf, c.getSimpleName().contains("Lambda") ? "lambda$" : "test");
+        if (m == null) {
+            error("test method not found");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        Code_attribute code = (Code_attribute) m.attributes.get(Attribute.Code);
+        if (code == null) {
+            error("Code attribute not found");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        LocalVariableTable_attribute lvt =
+                (LocalVariableTable_attribute) code.attributes.get(Attribute.LocalVariableTable);
+        if (lvt == null) {
+            error("LocalVariableTable attribute not found");
+            return;
+        }
+
+        Set<String> foundNames = new LinkedHashSet<>();
+        for (LocalVariableTable_attribute.Entry e: lvt.local_variable_table) {
+            foundNames.add(cf.constant_pool.getUTF8Value(e.name_index));
+        }
+
+        Set<String> expectNames = new LinkedHashSet<>(Arrays.asList(expect.value()));
+        if (!foundNames.equals(expectNames)) {
+            Set<String> foundOnly = new LinkedHashSet<>(foundNames);
+            foundOnly.removeAll(expectNames);
+            for (String s: foundOnly)
+                error("Unexpected name found: " + s);
+            Set<String> expectOnly = new LinkedHashSet<>(expectNames);
+            expectOnly.removeAll(foundNames);
+            for (String s: expectOnly)
+                error("Expected name not found: " + s);
+        }
+    }
+
+    Method getMethodByName(ClassFile cf, String name) throws ConstantPoolException {
+        for (Method m: cf.methods) {
+            if (m.getName(cf.constant_pool).startsWith(name))
+                return m;
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
+    /** Report an error. */
+    void error(String msg) {
+        System.err.println("Error: " + msg);
+        errors++;
+    }
+
+    int errors;
+
+    /**
+     * Annotation used to provide the set of names expected in the LVT attribute.
+     */
+    @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+    @interface Expect {
+        String[] value();
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * ---------- Test cases ---------------------------------------------------
+     */
+
+    @Expect({ "o", "s" })
+    static class Pattern_Simple {
+        public static void test(Object o) {
+            if (o instanceof String s) {}
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Expect({ "s" })
+    static class Pattern_Lambda {
+        public static void test(Object o) {
+            if (o instanceof String s) {
+                Runnable r = () -> {
+                    s.length();
+                };
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+}
+