Throwable types handled specially in the VM?

[Joe Darcy]

Hello.

As part of Project Coin, try-with-resources/ARM blocks have recently 
been integrated into JDK 7.  Part of this feature is changes to 
java.lang.Throwable to support recording of suppressed exception 
information (6911258 "Project Coin: Add essential API support for 
Automatic Resource Management (ARM) blocks").  Subsequently, some more 
changes in Throwable were necessary to fix a regression in the ability 
to print the stack traces of specially handled OutOfMemoryErrors 
(6973831 "NPE when printing stack trace of OOME").

Are there any other Throwable types which receive special handling or 
creation by the VM?  If there are any, I'd like to examine them to find 
and correct and additional issues.

Thanks,

-Joe