exception request
,
an event set
containing an instance of this class will be added
to the VM's event queue.
If the exception is thrown from a non-native method,
the exception event is generated at the location where the
exception is thrown.
If the exception is thrown from a native method, the exception event
is generated at the first non-native location reached after the exception
is thrown.
Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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public Location | Returns: theLocation where the exception will be caught or null if
the exception is uncaught.Gets the location where the exception will be caught. |
public ObjectReference | Returns: anObjectReference which mirrors the thrown object in
the target VM.Gets the thrown exception object. |
catchLocation | back to summary |
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public Location catchLocation() Gets the location where the exception will be caught. An exception is considered to be caught if, at the point of the throw, the current location is dynamically enclosed in a try statement that handles the exception. (See the JVM specification for details). If there is such a try statement, the catch location is the first code index of the appropriate catch clause. If there are native methods in the call stack at the time of the exception, there are important restrictions to note about the returned catch location. In such cases, it is not possible to predict whether an exception will be handled by some native method on the call stack. Thus, it is possible that exceptions considered uncaught here will, in fact, be handled by a native method and not cause termination of the target VM. Furthermore, it cannot be assumed that the catch location returned here will ever be reached by the throwing thread. If there is a native frame between the current location and the catch location, the exception might be handled and cleared in that native method instead.
Note that the compiler can generate try-catch blocks in some cases
where they are not explicit in the source code; for example,
the code generated for |
exception | back to summary |
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public ObjectReference exception() Gets the thrown exception object. The exception object is
an instance of
|