RFR: 8273659: Replay compilation crashes with SIGSEGV since 8271911

[Roland Westrelin]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:11:16 GMT, Dean Long <dlong at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I noticed replay fails when it encounters classes that it can't
>> resolve (when running with -XX:+ReplayIgnoreInitErrors).
>
> src/hotspot/share/ci/ciReplay.cpp line 445:
> 
>> 443:       if (k == NULL) {
>> 444:         return NULL;
>> 445:       }
> 
> Do we need a call to report_error() for a descriptive message for these failure paths?

parse_method() has calls to report_error() when it returns NULL. I think it's true of parse_klass() except if SymbolTable::new_symbol() returns NULL (but can it return NULL?). Do you think extra messages make sense then?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5490