Crash due to stack overflow situation if new frame is interpreted and previous is compiled

[Christian Thalinger]

On 02/ 9/10 05:12 PM, Hollich, Volker wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I observed that the current hotspot (both client/server) fails if a
> stack overflow situation occurs while generating an interpreted frame
> on top of a compiled frame. The small example program enclosed fills
> the stack with compiled frames and makes sure the interpreted frame
> does not fit onto the stack. In order to provoke this situation, I
> created a method with extraordinary many locals but this is no
> prerequisite for the crash situation per se. I see the test crashing
> hotspots on sparc, x86_32, and x86_64. Given the -Xint option, the
> test passes easily. The enclosed jar file is runnable and contains
> the java source code as well.

I filed:

6924814: Crash due to stack overflow situation if new frame is
interpreted and previous is compiled

-- Christian