RFR: 8167063: spurious message "A JNI error has occurred" if start-class cannot be initialized

[David Holmes]

This seems to have caused a number of failures in hotspot testing as 
thrown ClassFormatErrors seem to have been replaced by LinkageError.

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173915

David

> Thank you Kumar and Alan.
> Just pushed the fix. All the related tests from "core" and "pit" testset are passed.
>
> Regards,
> Ramanand.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kumar Srinivasan
> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 9:53 PM
> To: Ramanand Patil <ramanand.patil at oracle.com>
> Cc: Alan Bateman <alan.bateman at oracle.com>; core-libs-dev <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> Subject: Re: RFR: 8167063: spurious message "A JNI error has occurred" if start-class cannot be initialized
>
>
> Approved, please make sure you have run all the jprt -testset pit tests.
>
> Kumar
>
> On 1/30/2017 5:05 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> On 30/01/2017 12:11, Ramanand Patil wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you Alan.
>>>
>>> I have eliminated the inner catch block for LinkageError. Here is the
>>> updated webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpatil/8167063/webrev.04
>>>
>>>
>> I think this looks right now.
>>
>> -Alan