-XX:AbortVMOnException=java.lang.NullPointerException

[Deneau, Tom]

I wanted to use the option  -XX:AbortVMOnException=java.lang.NullPointerException to try to solve a different problem but I noticed when I use it, I always get this NullPointerException from LinearScanWalker showing up.  Is this expected?

(This was with the fastdebug build).

-- Tom

Stack: [0x00002b123e9d5000,0x00002b123ead6000],  sp=0x00002b123ead1b80,  free space=1010k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
V  [libjvm.so+0x1006d88]  VMError::report_and_die()+0x168
V  [libjvm.so+0x6ececf]  report_fatal(char const*, int, char const*)+0x6f
V  [libjvm.so+0x7a6ed1]  Exceptions::debug_check_abort(char const*, char const*)+0x91
V  [libjvm.so+0xe8ef70]  SharedRuntime::continuation_for_implicit_exception(JavaThread*, unsigned char*, SharedRuntime::ImplicitExceptionKind)+0x1a0
V  [libjvm.so+0xd766a1]  JVM_handle_linux_signal+0x5d1
V  [libjvm.so+0xd64832]  signalHandler(int, siginfo_t*, void*)+0x42
C  [libc.so.6+0x36ff0]  killpg+0x40
j  com.oracle.graal.compiler.alloc.LinearScanWalker.activateCurrent(Lcom/oracle/graal/compiler/alloc/Interval;)Z+92
j  com.oracle.graal.compiler.alloc.IntervalWalker.walkTo(I)V+88
j  com.oracle.graal.compiler.alloc.OptimizingLinearScanWalker.walk()V+191
j  com.oracle.graal.compiler.alloc.LinearScan.allocateRegisters()V+80
j  com.oracle.graal.compiler.alloc.LinearScan.allocate()V+163
j  com.oracle.graal.compiler.GraalCompiler.emitLIR(Lcom/oracle/graal/compiler/target/Backend;Lcom/oracle/graal/api/code/TargetDescription;Lcom/oracle/graal/phases/schedule/SchedulePhase;Lcom/oracle/graal/nodes/StructuredGraph;Ljava/lang/Object;Lcom/oracle/graal/api/code/CallingConvention;Lcom/oracle/graal/api/code/RegisterConfig;)Lcom/oracle/graal/lir/gen/LIRGenerationResult;+618
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j  com.oracle.graal.hotspot.hsail.HSAILHotSpotBackend.compileKernel(Lcom/oracle/graal/api/meta/ResolvedJavaMethod;Z)Lcom/oracle/graal/gpu/ExternalCompilationResult;+161