RFR: JDK-8230918: j.l.NASE in javap

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Hi Vicente,

It seems wrong to hijack an existing exception for an unrelated use.  
There's no IO condition that warrants the use of `java.io.IOException`. 
The problem is that for better or worse, javap cannot handle this 
probably-malformed class file. That deserves some appropriate exception, 
and a new one if there is nothing appropriate that is already available 
to use.

-- Jon

On 8/19/20 5:24 PM, Vicente Romero wrote:
> Please review fix for [1] at [2]. The fix is making javac fail with an 
> error message if an attribute has a length too big to be processed.
>
> Thanks,
> Vicente
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8230918
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/8230918/webrev.00/