RFR: 8302073: Specifying OnError handler prevents WatcherThread to break a deadlock in report_and_die()

[Christian Hagedorn]

On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 06:26:56 GMT, Thomas Stuefe <stuefe at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Decoder, in particular, should not use malloc. Therefore I also opened https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8303862 to track that. I won't have time to work on that. I have the hope that maybe @chhagedorn can :-) ?

Does any of our current allocation strategies allow the usage of a custom scratch buffer (i.e. the error reporting scratch buffer) as memory location? If not, it could get more complicated. I could still try to tackle that but I'm not sure if I have the necessary knowledge in that area.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12925