RFR: JDK-8317920: JDWP-agent sends broken exception event with onthrow option

[Chris Plummer]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 10:44:53 GMT, Johannes Bechberger <jbechberger at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Fix `onthrow` issue by passing the event info to the `initialize` method.
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> This prevents `jdb` from receiving a broken exception event and throwing an internal NullPointerException, upon attaching to the JDWP-agent.

So with 8 there is no NPE? Maybe JDI or jdb used to do something different and just swallowed exception event. Seeing the NPE stack trace would help determine what has changed to cause this behavior difference.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16145#issuecomment-1759892165