RFR: 8310829: guarantee(!HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) failed in ExceptionTranslation::doit [v3]

[Doug Simon]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:41:25 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Then why did you not simply handle the exception from the loading of VMSupport the same way?

The only actual case seen of the original way failing is due to OOME in GC stress tests. If loading of VMSupport is done during VM startup, then no stress test code can cause an OOME while loading VMSupport. I doubt `VMSupport.<clinit>` would ever fail in practice.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14641#issuecomment-1608330027