Request for approval: Bug 100057 - Potential stack corruption in GetJavaProperties

[Alan Bateman]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> :
> OK.  I'll check for the NULL, then.  If I have to change the patch that's
> been in IcedTea for ages then I'll use strdup instead of malloc.  But what
> is one supposed to do if the allocation fails?  Simply emit an error
> message to stderr and call abort() ?
>   
JNU_ThrowOutOfMemoryError(env, NULL) and return NULL should do it and 
will be treated as a fatal error by HotSpot.

-Alan.