If an allocation is so huge that we cannot code the size needed in the failur...

src/factory.cc

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 // Allocate the new array. We cannot use the CALL_HEAP_FUNCTION macro here,
 // because the stack-allocated CallbacksDescriptor instance is not GC safe.
 Handle<DescriptorArray> Factory::CopyAppendProxyDescriptor(
     Handle<DescriptorArray> array,
     Handle<String> key,
     Handle<Object> value,
     PropertyAttributes attributes) {
   GC_GREEDY_CHECK();
   CallbacksDescriptor desc(*key, *value, attributes);
   Object* obj = array->CopyInsert(&desc, REMOVE_TRANSITIONS);
-  if (obj->IsRetryAfterGC()) {
-    CALL_GC(obj);
-    CallbacksDescriptor desc(*key, *value, attributes);
-    obj = array->CopyInsert(&desc, REMOVE_TRANSITIONS);
+  if (obj->IsFailure()) {
+    if (obj->IsRetryAfterGC()) {
+      CALL_GC(obj);
+      CallbacksDescriptor desc(*key, *value, attributes);
+      obj = array->CopyInsert(&desc, REMOVE_TRANSITIONS);
+    }
     if (obj->IsFailure()) {
       // TODO(1181417): Fix this.
       V8::FatalProcessOutOfMemory("CopyAppendProxyDescriptor");
     }
   }
   return Handle<DescriptorArray>(DescriptorArray::cast(obj));
 }
 
 #undef CALL_GC
 
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     Execution::ConfigureInstance(instance,
                                  instance_template,
                                  pending_exception);
   } else {
     *pending_exception = false;
   }
 }
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal