--- a/src/share/vm/jvmci/jvmciCompiler.cpp	Thu Oct 22 12:43:42 2015 +0200
+++ b/src/share/vm/jvmci/jvmciCompiler.cpp	Thu Oct 22 11:26:30 2015 -0700
@@ -133,22 +133,40 @@
   Handle receiver = JVMCIRuntime::get_HotSpotJVMCIRuntime(CHECK_ABORT);
 
   JavaValue method_result(T_OBJECT);
-  {
+  JavaCallArguments args;
+  args.push_long((jlong) (address) method());
+  JavaCalls::call_static(&method_result, SystemDictionary::HotSpotResolvedJavaMethodImpl_klass(),
+                         vmSymbols::fromMetaspace_name(), vmSymbols::method_fromMetaspace_signature(), &args, THREAD);
+
+  if (!HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+    JavaValue result(T_VOID);
     JavaCallArguments args;
-    args.push_long((jlong) (address) method());
-    JavaCalls::call_static(&method_result, SystemDictionary::HotSpotResolvedJavaMethodImpl_klass(), vmSymbols::fromMetaspace_name(), vmSymbols::method_fromMetaspace_signature(), &args, CHECK_ABORT);
+    args.push_oop(receiver);
+    args.push_oop((oop)method_result.get_jobject());
+    args.push_int(entry_bci);
+    args.push_long((jlong) (address) env);
+    args.push_int(env->task()->compile_id());
+    JavaCalls::call_special(&result, receiver->klass(),
+                            vmSymbols::compileMethod_name(), vmSymbols::compileMethod_signature(), &args, THREAD);
   }
 
-  JavaValue result(T_VOID);
-  JavaCallArguments args;
-  args.push_oop(receiver);
-  args.push_oop((oop)method_result.get_jobject());
-  args.push_int(entry_bci);
-  args.push_long((jlong) (address) env);
-  args.push_int(env->task()->compile_id());
-  JavaCalls::call_special(&result, receiver->klass(), vmSymbols::compileMethod_name(), vmSymbols::compileMethod_signature(), &args, CHECK_ABORT);
+  // An uncaught exception was thrown during compilation.  Generally these
+  // should be handled by the Java code in some useful way but if they leak
+  // through to here report them instead of dying or silently ignoring them.
+  if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+    Handle throwable = PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+    CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
 
-  _methodsCompiled++;
+    JVMCIRuntime::call_printStackTrace(throwable, THREAD);
+    if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION) {
+      CLEAR_PENDING_EXCEPTION;
+    }
+
+    // Something went wrong so disable compilation at this level
+    method->set_not_compilable(CompLevel_full_optimization);
+  } else {
+    _methodsCompiled++;
+  }
 }