JVMTI ExceptionCatch event clarification

[David Holmes]

On 15/05/2019 4:52 am, Chris wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the fast response and clarification.
> 
> On 5/14/19 7:34 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>> So yes I would say this is a bug. I filed:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8223812
>>
>> "JVM TI ExceptionCatch event is not posted when an exception is caught 
>> by a native method"
>>
>> Fix seems simple enough.
> 
> Thank you for submitting the bug report. Will the fix also be ported to 
> OpenJDK 8? The affected versions list does not include "8".

I added 8 to the affected version list. Whether this gets backported to 
8u will be up to the folks maintaining the 8u project. You'd have to 
ask/lobby them on jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net once the fix is in the 
mainline (though I don't know when that will be).

Cheers,
David

> -- Chris