RFR: 8308764: Reporting errors from create_vm may crash [v5]

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 08:13:28 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> There are more details in the bug report but the basic fix is to not delete the main_thread so that it is available to report the exception that caused VM initialization to fail. Added some additional comments too.
>> 
>> Testing:
>>  - basic fault injection to test non-exception exit paths both before and after Universe:;is_fully_initialized() which exercises the failing use of JavaThread::current()
>>  -  tiers 1-3 sanity testing
>> 
>> Thanks.
>
> David Holmes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Fix comment typo

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14238#issuecomment-1579562595