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

Tue Nov 17 11:24:05 UTC 2020

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:12:04 GMT, Tom Rodriguez <never 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.
>
> Marked as reviewed by never (Reviewer).

Thanks @tkrodriguez and @vnkozlov for the reviews.

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