JVMTI OOM handling when arrays / objects are too large

[Jeremy Manson]

Hi Tomas (and David, presumably),

Why is this a programming error?  I thought it was just a VM
limitation.  Surely the JVMS allows arrays of any nonnegative integral
size, no?

Jeremy

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Tomas Hurka<Tomas.Hurka at sun.com> wrote:
> Hi Martin and David,
>
> On 14 Jun 2009, at 21:37, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>
>> I've polished the changes in preparation for committing.
>> I'll commit once I have reviewer approval.
>
> I have the same concern as David. I think that throwing OOME, in places
> where there is obviously a simple programming error, is not a good idea.
> Will it be possible to change it to throw IllegalArgumentException instead?
> I have one more comment about the patch itself - changes to
> src/share/vm/gc_interface/collectedHeap.inline.hpp and
> src/share/vm/utilities/exceptions.hpp are unrelated to the bugfix. I think
> it will be better to separate them to the different changeset.
>
> Bye,
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