Hotspot segfaulting on Linux SPARC

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 04/10/2018 11:45 PM, David Holmes wrote:
>> diff -r 00805b129186 src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_sparc/vm_version_linux_sparc.cpp
>> --- a/src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_sparc/vm_version_linux_sparc.cpp Tue Apr 10 11:43:40 2018 -0700
>> +++ b/src/hotspot/os_cpu/linux_sparc/vm_version_linux_sparc.cpp Tue Apr 10 22:38:12 2018 +0300
>> @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
>>           if (vstr != NULL) {
>>             // We have a matching line and a valid starting point to the value of
>>             // the field, copy the string for keeps.
>> -          _string = strdup(vstr);
>> +          _string = os::strdup(vstr, mtInternal);
>>             break;
>>           }
>>         }

I will get this change merged first. This definitely fixes one crash
on linux-sparc.

> The only reference to that message I can find is from HashMap/HashSet where the load factor defines how full the collection becomes before it resizes. I would have to guess some kind of floating-point issue here - a very small number rather than 0 perhaps?

Then try to track down this issue using hg bisect.

Adrian

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