RFR: 8284273: Early crashes in os::print_context on AArch64

Thu May 19 13:57:49 UTC 2022

On Thu, 19 May 2022 07:35:16 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I like this, but I'm curious about something. Couldn't we use `Safefetch` to handle the risky sections? Then we could carry on printing.

Yes, and we should. But splitting larger steps into smaller ones makes sense too, since code tends to bitrot and one never can be sure to cover all places with SafeFetch.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8736