Request for review: 7046490 - Preallocated OOME objects should obey Throwable stack trace protocol

[David Holmes]

Hi Mandy,

Mandy Chung said the following on 07/12/11 11:12:
> On 7/7/11 1:25 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/7046490/webrev/
>>
>> This is a simple fix in the VM to honour the Throwable immutability 
>> protocol that was defined for Java 7. Pre-allocated Throwable 
>> instances are normally immutable, but that is not the case for a group 
>> of pre-allocated OutOfMemoryError instances. To conform to the 
>> protocol, when we set the backtrace (VM representation of the 
>> stackTrace) we have to set the stackTrace field to the sentinel value 
>> stored in the static Throwable.UNASSIGNED_STACK field.
> 
> This fix looks good.  I assume you still need a reviewer for this fix :)

Yes still needed reviewers. That's one down, now I need someone from 
runtime.

Thanks,
David