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

Sat Oct 14 21:29:38 UTC 2023

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.
> 
> This prevents `jdb` from receiving a broken exception event and throwing an internal NullPointerException, upon attaching to the JDWP-agent.

So when you said "But it kind of worked", you were referring to both JDK 8 and current JDK, and were just pointing out that it did start the debugging session. 

I'd still like to see the NPE stack trace.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16145#issuecomment-1763178085