On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 19:09:47 GMT, Doug Simon <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Doug Simon has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> fixed TestTranslatedException
>
> src/hotspot/share/utilities/exceptions.cpp line 208:
>
>> 206: Handle h_loader, Handle
>> h_protection_domain) {
>> 207: // Check for special boot-strapping/compiler-thread handling
>> 208: if (special_exception(thread, file, line, h_cause)) return;
>
> This fixes a long standing bug where `special_exception` is being queried
> with the *cause* of the exception being thrown instead of the *name* of the
> exception being thrown.
I'm not so sure this is in fact a bug. If we are throwing with a cause, but we
can't actually throw and so will do vm_exit, then the exception of interest is
the cause not the more generic exception that would otherwise contain the cause.
Though I have to wonder why there is not an original `_throw` for the "cause"
exception, that would have triggered the special_exception handling anyway?
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20083#discussion_r1671652583