Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=716347 fix: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/c89018e3f3b6 Review thread: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2012-June/003809.html /Nils Loodin