Exception in thread "Reference Handler" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jdk/internal/ref/Cleaner
at java.base/java.lang.ref.Reference$ReferenceHandler.run(Reference.java:205)
clss41701.java:21:30: compiler.err.type.var.may.not.be.followed.by.other.bounds
1 error
result: Failed. Output does not match reference file: clss41701.out, line 1

See JDK-8329357 for similar error in unrelated test. Suspicion is that an OOME renders the Cleaner class erroneous.