[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8255068: [JVMCI] errors during compiler creation can be hidden

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 15:23:25 GMT, Kangcheng Xu <kxu at openjdk.org> wrote:

> an almost clean backport of [JDK-8255068 [JVMCI] errors during compiler creation can be hidden](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8255068)
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> Backport-of: openjdk/jdk at 6020991530c0efe81fd203f35a7352247aedafeb
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> The original patch does not apply cleanly to 11u; it references a `creatingCompiler` boolean was introduced in [JDK-8220623](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8220623) for JDK 13. I removed lines related to this flag.
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> All tests passed with GHA.

@tabjy This is a JVMCI change and has the `jdk11u-jvmci-defer` label. The primary user of JVMCI is GraalVM and as far as I know we don't have any more consumers of that for JDK 11. It seems not worth the risk to include it in that stage of the JDK 11 lifecycle.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/2230#issuecomment-1802349355