NullPointerException / threads

[Andrew Haley]

> From: Glenn Chambers <GChambers@provsol.com>
> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:18:46 -0500
> 
> > In order to solve this problem, we could create a new
> > NullPointerException in the context of the signal handler, but that
> > may crash if the SEGV occurs in the memory allocator itself.  Also,
> > fillInStackTrace calls JvNewByteArray to hold the stack trace, and if
> > this fails we'll crash anyway, so maybe a SEGV handler shouldn't even
> > be calling fillInStackTrace.
> > 
> > I suppose we could create a NullPointerException and a pre-allocated
> > stacktrace for each thread when it starts, but that seems rather
> > nasty.
> 
> Can you tell at SEGV-time if you're currently in the allocator?  If so,
> you could preallocate an 'emergency' exception+array

Right, but it may not help; If the SEGV was *caused* by heap
corruption we'd still crash even if the point at which the SEGV occurs
is in user code.

Andrew.