Compressed oops failure with hs19 master

[Tom Rodriguez]

I can reproduce this with the latest hotspot.  I've filed 7002666 for it.  You may want to disable compressed oops in hs19.

tom

On Nov 24, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:

> I reported this on jdk6-dev
> (http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-November/002095.html)
> but thought it best to also report it here as there's been no
> response.
> 
> The hs19 stable branch crashes with Eclipse's CDT plugin:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647737
> 
> and the same occurs with the current OpenJDK7 HotSpot tree.
> (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot/hotspot)
> 
> Disabling compressed oops by default (as was done for hs17 stable)
> will work around the problem, and this is what we presently do in
> IcedTea6.
> 
> Is compressed oops ready for prime time in hs19 or is turning it off
> the right path to go down?  Has anyone else seen this issue or know of
> anything that might fix it?
> 
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