Re: RFR (S) 8213721 : [Graal] Tests vmTestbase/nsk/stress/except/except* may be encountering SEGV during out-of-memory conditions

[Chris Plummer]

Hi JC, I think you need to send this to runtime-dev. Chris On 11/20/18 7:38 PM, JC Beyler wrote: Hi all, Could I get a review for this small change for the except* tests: Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jcbeyler/8213721/webrev.00/ Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213721 The bug contains a good explanation of why this is required. After the webrev, the tests no longer fail due to a SIGSEV with the flags:  -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+EnableJVMCI -XX:+UseJVMCICompiler -XX:+TraceExceptions -Dgraal.PrintCompilation=true -XX:+PrintCompilation -XX:+TraceDeoptimization   (except010.java failed due to a timeout and except004.java failed due to an OOME from a Graal thread). Thanks, Jc