src/share/classes/java/lang/ref/Reference.java

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  /*
!  * Copyright (c) 1997, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
   * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
   *
   * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
   * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
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  /*
!  * Copyright (c) 1997, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
   * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
   *
   * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
   * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
   * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
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                      if (pending != null) {
                          r = pending;
                          pending = r.discovered;
                          r.discovered = null;
                      } else {
+                         // we explicitly cascade the two exceptions here to avoid
+                         // double throw of OOME in case InterruptedException needs
+                         // to be loaded during OOME caused by waiting for the
+                         // lock to be signaled.
+                         // The class loading may further trigger other secondary
+                         // exceptions due to low memory that may cause the thread
+                         // to terminate too.
+                         try {
                              try {
                                  lock.wait();
+                             } catch (OutOfMemoryError x) { }
                          } catch (InterruptedException x) { }
                          continue;
                      }
                  }