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

[David Holmes]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 21:47:08 GMT, Doug Simon <dnsimon at openjdk.org> wrote:

>  I doubt VMSupport.<clinit> would ever fail in practice.

I would think it is likely to fail with OOME under the same GC stress test conditions.

But if this is just a stress test issue then bailing out when the loading fails would be far simpler than pre-loading the class. You've added to the VM startup cost just to avoid a stress test failure.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14641#issuecomment-1608371203