RFR: 8299684: (bf) JNI direct buffer functions with large capacity behave unexpectedly [v9]

[David Holmes]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 19:44:08 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> test/jdk/java/nio/jni/NewDirectByteBuffer.java line 93:
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>>> 91:                 }
>>> 92:             });
>>> 93:         } catch (OutOfMemoryError ignored) {
>> 
>> Why is there is catch of OOME here?
>
> Apparently it is not needed so removed in 38ea7997be2be59e2cea97c7dabf929210c0edfa.

No wonder I couldn't find this change! The catch of OOME was added because I still believe that trying to allocate a buffer of capacity Integer.MAX_VALUE will throw OOME (at least some of the time). If that happens then the test should not fail.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11873