(Preliminary) RFC 7038914: VM could throw uncaught OOME in ReferenceHandler thread

[Peter Levart]

On 04/30/2013 04:57 PM, Thomas Schatzl wrote:
> I implemented a nice way to reproduce an OOME in the reference
> handler. This involves implementing a custom
> java.lang.ref.ReferenceQueue and overriding the enqueue() method, and
> doing some allocation that causes an OOME within that method.

Hi Thomas,

I don't think many people are doing that. Overriding package-private 
system classes/methods and putting custom code in boot classloader can 
break anything. I think that anyone messing with system code should 
catch his own OOMEs.

Regards, Peter

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