On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:52:45 GMT, Coleen Phillimore <cole...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> test/hotspot/jtreg/serviceability/jvmti/RedefineClasses/RedefineVerifyError.java
>> line 96:
>>
>>> 94: throw new RuntimeException("This should throw VerifyError");
>>> 95: } catch (VerifyError e) {
>>> 96: // JVMTI recreates the VerifyError so the verification
>>> message is lost.
>>
>> I'm not clear why JVMTI would mess with the `VerifyError` that the verifier
>> should have raised, and which explains the reason why verification failed.
>> Not that your changes impact that.
>
> The JVMTI code for redefinition returns JVMTI_ERROR_FAILS_VERIFICATION and
> not the pending exception to the caller. The agent eventually in
> java.instrument/share/native/libinstrument/JavaExceptions.c will recreate the
> VerifyError based on the JVMTI error code.
Wow that is pretty developer unfriendly. Hopefully exception logging will still
show what the error is in detail.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22116#discussion_r1851367760
