RFR: 8302491: NoClassDefFoundError omits the original cause of an error [v2]

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:32:09 GMT, Ilarion Nakonechnyy <inakonechnyy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> That would be one option. There is a lot of overlap with these two methods. Also I think your new method has to handle this case too:
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>> // If new_exception returns a different exception while creating the exception, return null.
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>>  Also I think your new method has to handle this case too
>> / If new_exception returns a different exception while creating the exception, return null.
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> I'm afraid that in this case ( if I return null ), the original cause again will be missed from the stacktrace.

If `new_exception` returns a different exception then you have already lost that. The `ExceptionInInitializerError` would have been replaced by some other exception object: most likely OOME or even another SOE?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12566