JVMTI OOM handling when arrays / objects are too large

[Tomas Hurka]

Hi Jeremy,

On 15 Jun 2009, at 09:39, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> Why is this a programming error?  I thought it was just a VM  
> limitation.
Well, maybe the error is probably not the right word. The point is  
that this is not OOME. You are right that it is VM limitation.

>  Surely the JVMS allows arrays of any nonnegative integral size, no?

Sure, it does.

Bye,
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