[8u] RFR 6424123: JVM crashes on failed 'strdup' call

[Andrew Hughes]

On 09:29 Fri 31 Jul     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 7/30/20 4:19 PM, Hohensee, Paul wrote:
> > I took a look at the webrev. Doesn't seem that extensive (or risky) to me.
> > 
> > Summary of changes: 69 lines changed: 40 ins; 0 del; 29 mod; 31448 unchg.
> > 
> > If we don't do it, besides making future backports a bit more difficult, we'll have a (admittedly subtle) behavioral difference with Oracle, which in this case doesn’t seem justified to me.
> 
> Mmm, OK, that's a way of looking at it. I guess that is enough to
> swing behind acceptance of this patch. It's good.
> 
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If this is going to now be included, it needs to also fix the cases
where we worked around its absence. Does this proposed patch do so?

Thanks,
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Andrew :)

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