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List:       openjdk-macosx-port-dev
Subject:    Re: OSX Java 8 crash on Mavericks
From:       Paul Taylor <paul_t100 () fastmail ! fm>
Date:       2014-02-14 12:01:45
Message-ID: 52FE05A9.9090500 () fastmail ! fm
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On 14/02/2014 11:41, Michael Hall wrote:
> > I was under the impressions that however bad my code was it shouldn't cause  Java \
> > to crash in this way, is that not correct ?
> I believe that is the theory. So you probably did hit on at least an edge case \
> which the jdk didn't handle as well as you'd hope - if not a actual jdk bug. 
> > But interesting that you think there is a bug in my code that could be causing \
> > this to happen, its only been reported once by one user so going to be difficult \
> > to track down Probably in or calling into native.
> I don't think I said anything about it being your code. Although I would say it's \
> possible it's your code. I usually tend to suspect mine first in these situations. \
> Probably doing something strange to hit a jdk edge case. 
To be clear I'm not taking any offense that it could be my code, I just 
didn't think I could cause a crash. For example in this case if I'm 
recursively calling something I would just expect a java
> StackOverflowError, I think if I did hit ||edge case which the jdk 
didn't handle as well as hoped that would be a jdk bug in my book. |

> > 

> My application doesnt really contain any native code written by me, there is a \
> little bit of Applescript and that is it.|
> > 

> 
Paul|


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