On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 05:46:31 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> 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?
Though I see this is inconsistent with `Exceptions::_throw_msg_cause`
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20083#discussion_r1671653968
