RFR: 8330578: The VM creates instance of abstract class VirtualMachineError [v7]

[Ioi Lam]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:10:56 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <coleenp at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> It's a bug that the VM creates an instance of the abstract class VirtualMachineError.  In the cases where we throw VME, we should throw OOM or StackOverflowError instead.
>> 
>> Tested with tier1-4.
>
> Coleen Phillimore has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - restore exceptions.cpp comment
>  - Restore VirtualMemoryError as InternalError - a nonabstract class

Marked as reviewed by iklam (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18847#pullrequestreview-2015695532