RFR(S): 8016131: nsk/sysdict/vm/stress/chain tests crash the VM in 'entry_frame_is_first()'

[Rickard Bäckman]

Vladimir & John,

thanks for the suggestion. It makes sense. 
Updated webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rbackman/8016131.u2/

Thanks
/R

On Jul 16, 2013, at 4:26 AM, John Rose wrote:

> On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> There are several methods already in Thread class which do similar address cheacks: on_local_stackO, is_in_stack(). It would be nice to have new check (at least part of it) at the same place.
> 
> Yes, that's a good idea!  Thread::is_in_usable_stack.  That way the computation that involves stack_guard_size, etc., goes in thread.cpp which is more logical than in frame.cpp.
> 
> — John