Very large string literals generate class files with errors

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When attempting to run the attached file with a large (>65535 character) String literal, I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: Unknown constant tag 32 in class file LongStringLiteral$delayedInit$body
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:791)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:449)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:71)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:361)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:423)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:356)
	at LongStringLiteral$.<init>(LongStringLiteral.scala:1)
	at LongStringLiteral$.<clinit>(LongStringLiteral.scala)
	at LongStringLiteral.main(LongStringLiteral.scala)

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7527?orig=1
Reporter: Matt Russell (mattrussell)
Affected Versions: 2.10.1
Attachments:

• LongStringLiteral.scala (created on May 29, 2013 12:37:29 PM UTC, 82423 bytes)

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@Blaisorblade said:
I've just run into (I believe) the same bug.
Scalac should give an error instead of blindly outputting the string. Without inspecting the code, I'd claim that if classfiles are only generated with ASM, ASM itself should error out with an exception (and Scalac should catch it and report it appropriately).

According to the JVM spec, the byte length of strings literals in class files is stored in a 2-byte field, so if the byte length is greater than 65536 it won't fit. The character length might even be less while still triggering the problem.
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se7/html/jvms-4.html#jvms-4.4.7

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John Thywissen (jthywiss) said:
As of Scala 2.11.7, as embedded in Scala IDE 4.1.0.v-2_11-201505250839-aeb633d:

A very long triple quoted string results in scala.tools.asm throwing an IllegalArgumentException, which is reported in the UI as:
Error in Scala compiler: null
SBT builder crashed while compiling. The error message is 'null'. Check Error Log for details.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at scala.tools.asm.ByteVector.putUTF8(ByteVector.java:213)
at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newUTF8(ClassWriter.java:1092)
at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newString(ClassWriter.java:1525)
at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newConstItem(ClassWriter.java:1042)
......

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@Blaisorblade said:
Can you confirm this happens for literals of more than 65535 bytes? If so, it's an evolution of the same underlying problem: ASM now rejects such illegal strings, but the compiler does not handle the situation gracefully.

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@som-snytt said:
Yes, it happens at 64k chars.

$ scalac -d /tmp LongStringLiteral.scala 
error: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
	at scala.tools.asm.ByteVector.encodeUTF8(ByteVector.java:273)
	at scala.tools.asm.ByteVector.putUTF8(ByteVector.java:234)
	at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newUTF8(ClassWriter.java:1092)
	at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newString(ClassWriter.java:1525)
	at scala.tools.asm.ClassWriter.newConstItem(ClassWriter.java:1042)
	at scala.tools.asm.MethodWriter.visitLdcInsn(MethodWriter.java:1134)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenASM$JPlainBuilder.genConstant(GenASM.scala:1578)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenASM$JPlainBuilder.scala$tools$nsc$backend$jvm$GenASM$JPlainBuilder$$genInstr$1(GenASM.scala:2292)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenASM$JPlainBuilder$$anonfun$genBlock$1$2.apply(GenASM.scala:2223)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.jvm.GenASM$JPlainBuilder$$anonfun$genBlock$1$2.apply(GenASM.scala:2209)
	at scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
	at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayOps$ofRef.foreach(ArrayOps.scala:186)
	at scala.tools.nsc.backend.icode.BasicBlocks$BasicBlock.foreach(BasicBlocks.scala:195)

[wang7x]

meet same error when call length() on a very large string scastie example