RFR: 8240567: MethodTooLargeException thrown while creating a jlink image [v6]

[Christoph]

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 16:17:41 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> Would it be possible to paste in a summary on the VerifyError with the previous iteration?
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>> Isn't this https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10704#issuecomment-1286106503?
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>>     Type top (current frame, locals[15]) is not assignable to reference type
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>>>  If I read the latest update then the limit per helper method has been bump to avoid it, is that right?
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>> Yes. Then, the compiler still works - and we can try to debug using the test case (yet to be finalized).
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> @koppor Should we continue to just ignore this PR for now? The current patch is test only, I don't know if that is deliberate or not.

@AlanBateman  We now have a reproducible JTREG test case that throws the MethodTooLargeException. We will now readd the module splitting handling.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10704