JDK 9 RFR of 8041683: java/math/BigInteger/BitLengthOverflow.java failing with OOME

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/04/2014 22:26, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Issue:	https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8041683
> Patch:	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8041683/webrev.00/
>
> It’s not really a solution but the patch changes BitLengthOverflow and DoubleValueOverflow to catch the OOME and print a warning to STDERR instead of failing outright. These OOMEs do not occur in JPRT runs with default parameters, so at least this patch would allow the tests to run successfully when there is enough memory but not to cause the test run to fail when there is not enough memory. This is more test coverage than never running the tests.
This looks okay although I suspect these tests will will throw OOME most 
of the time, as it's so common to limit the heap size (512MB is common, 
I think is what the make files use for example).

-Alan.