Sebastian Sickelmann wrote:
Hi,
some time ago, i wrote[5] with Joe and David about advancing some
exception-types to the 4 standard ctors.
The first Exception i have looked at was InternalError and now(after
some struggeling with gnumake and hg) my patches for reviewing are ready.
I uploaded them at [4]
I split the changes into 3 parts.
1. Added 2 ctors to InternalError and VirtualMachineError****[1]
2. Use the two ctors of InternalError****[2] (based on [1])
3. Chain Rootcause into InternalError**[3] (based also on [1])
I think part 1 and 2 are uncritical. Part 3 is more critical because
it changes behavior (exception-chaining). But i don't think that part
3 is unimportable, because in case of an InternalError (use should not
be able to recover) there shouldn't be a problem with a little longer
exception-chain.
Is there someone who what to sponsor this or parts of it?
I don't have cycles but I can generate a webrev (essentially browsable
diffs) for you that would make this easy to review. Do you mind
re-basing your patches so that they can be applied to jdk8/tl/jdk? I
think Sasha got in before you and has already changesd several places to
use multi-catch that are in your patches too.
-Alan.
