sigsegv on porter stemmer (Lucene, but also otherwise)

[Dawid Weiss]

Thanks for feedback and the workaround, Vladimir. The credits for
finding the bug and reproducing it should go to Robert Muir and Uwe
Schindler, I'm merely a messenger, but I had a feeling you'd be
interested :)

Dawid

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Vladimir Kozlov
<vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much, Dawid, for providing the test case. Bug was filed in
> wrong category so we did not know about it. I will work on it since it could
> be my changes in loop optimizations. Use next flag as workaround:
>
> -XX:-UseLoopPredicate
>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> Dawid Weiss wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I am an Apache Lucene developer, we've been running tests with Java
>> 1.7 and this came up:
>>
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7070134
>>
>> Porter stemmer is pretty widely used for shallow NLP, not only in
>> Lucene. It'd be interesting to hear from jit gurus what's causing this
>> (the problem does not occur in 1.6). Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Dawid
>