JVMTI OOM handling when arrays / objects are too large

[Jeremy Manson]

FWIW, I also think that having a call to new throw anything that isn't
an OOME is opening up a much larger compatibility can of worms than
anything else I intended with this patch.

Jeremy

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Jeremy Manson<jeremymanson at google.com> wrote:
> 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,
>> --
>> Tomas Hurka   <mailto:tomas.hurka at sun.com>
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>> Sun Microsystems, Praha Czech Republic
>>
>>
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