RR(S): JDK-8023667 SA: ExceptionBlob and other C2 classes not available in client VM

[Staffan Larsen]

On 3 feb 2014, at 11:59, Dmitry Samersoff <dmitry.samersoff at oracle.com> wrote:

> Staffan,
> 
> All items under try-catch exists only in server (C2 compiler) VM, so if
> one of them is missing in target VM other items is missed as well.

Are you sure? Some of them look very generic: “JavaThread”, “SurrogateLockerThread”, “GenCollectedHeap”, etc. Perhaps the catch-ignore-c2-specifics should end at lin 821? 

/Staffan


> 
> I have no ideas what happens later if SA tries to access one of this
> non-initialized items, but I don't see any errors in my home testing.
> 
> -Dmitry
> 
> On 2014-02-03 14:39, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>> It looks like this new version will leave some things uninitialized
>> if an item higher on the list throws an exception. I don’t think that
>> is what you want.
>> 
>> /Staffan
>> 
>> 
>> On 31 jan 2014, at 20:42, Dmitry Samersoff
>> <dmitry.samersoff at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Everybody,
>>> 
>>> Please review the fix:
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsamersoff/JDK-8023667/webrev.01/
>>> 
>>> sa.js try to initialize all possible VM structures regardless of
>>> type of VM we are running on
>>> 
>>> -- Dmitry Samersoff Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg,
>>> Russia * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me
>>> the sources.
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dmitry Samersoff
> Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
> * I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the sources.