Code review request: 6973831 NPE when printing stack trace of OOME

[Mandy Chung]

  David, Brian, Remi,

Thanks for the review.

On 08/12/10 12:00, Rémi Forax wrote:

>> The "detailMessage" is not final because the VM in fact preallocates 
>> Throwable object (OOME and ArithmeticException) and then sets the 
>> 'detailMessage' field directly (as the constructor is not invoked). 
>
> I am pretty sure the VM can set this field even if it is declared final.
> I think I don't see the problem.
>

I will file a CR to address this and separate from this bug fix.  I 
believe that the VM has no problem setting this field even if it's 
declared final.  I may be overly cautious but I think we need the VM 
team to evaluate this.

Thanks
Mandy