(S) RFR: 8139300: Internal Error (vm/utilities/debug.cpp:399), # Error: ShouldNotReachHere()

[David Holmes]

On 17/11/2015 8:16 AM, Kim Barrett wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2015, at 4:32 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17/11/2015 6:34 AM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>>> On 11/11/15 11:33 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8139300/webrev/
>>>
>>> src/share/vm/utilities/debug.cpp
>>>      No comments.
>>>
>>> test/runtime/ErrorHandling/SecondaryErrorTest.java
>>>      No comments.
>>>
>>> Thumbs up.
>>>
>>> Since you've used the POSIX equivalent code:
>>>
>>>      pthread_kill(pthread_self(), SIGFPE);
>>>
>>> I'm presuming we have no plans to change this code back once
>>> MacOS X fixes the bug in raise().
>>
>> No plans. Also I'm not aware of OSX accepting this as a bug, so it may never get fixed.
>
> Note that the Darwin/BSD documentation for raise is different from POSIX:
>
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/raise.3.html
>
> DESCRIPTION
>
>       The raise() function sends the signal sig to the current process.

Yes. I thought I had found a slightly different version that also 
mentioned POSIX but now can't locate it. The page above is from 1993. :(

David