RFR: 8299570: [JVMCI] Insufficient error handling when CodeBuffer is exhausted [v4]

[Andrew Haley]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 10:59:35 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> src/hotspot/cpu/aarch64/nativeInst_aarch64.cpp line 548:
>> 
>>> 546:     }
>>> 547:   } else {
>>> 548:     // If not using far branches, patch this call directly to dest.
>> 
>> This is all very complicated.  Can't we just add `JVMCI_ERROR`s where we need them?
>
> I'm not following - isn't this exactly what the code is doing? Maybe you could demonstrate how you think it should look.

Maybe it would be nicer to get the `! far_branches` code path out of the way first, and return immediately.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11945