RFR: 8253228: [JVMCI] provide more info on fatal JVMCI errors

Mon Nov 16 23:24:03 UTC 2020

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:08:20 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

> There are a number of places in JVMCI that abort VM execution due to unexpected Java exceptions and other error conditions. Currently, a message and the exception stack (if any) is printed and then the VM is shutdown via the global `vm_exit` function.
> This PR changes the behavior in this scenario to raise a fatal VM error so that a hs-err log file is produced which provides more context.

Good.

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Marked as reviewed by kvn (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1240