Request for approval: Bug 100057 (original) (raw)

Request for approval: Bug 100057 - Potential stack corruption in GetJavaProperties

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Fri May 22 12:04:59 UTC 2009


Andrew Haley wrote:

: OK. I'll check for the NULL, then. If I have to change the patch that's been in IcedTea for ages then I'll use strdup instead of malloc. But what is one supposed to do if the allocation fails? Simply emit an error message to stderr and call abort() ? JNU_ThrowOutOfMemoryError(env, NULL) and return NULL should do it and will be treated as a fatal error by HotSpot.

-Alan.



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