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

[Andrew Haley]

On 8/6/20 5:58 AM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 
> Having now reviewed this, I can see it contains issues that were resolved
> in the original review thread:
> 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-April/011527.html
> 
> and doesn't deal with the cases worked around after this patch.
> 
> I'll revise my original patch and post it for review. This version is
> a regression from that one.

Great catch. Phew.

In this case, the patch is very marginal. It's not at all clear it was
worth backporting in the first place. And we've risked regression for it.

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