OSX Java 8 crash on Mavericks

[Paul Taylor]

On 14/02/2014 11:41, Michael Hall wrote:
>> I was under the impressions that however bad my code was it shouldn't cause  Java to crash in this way, is that not correct ?
> I believe that is the theory. So you probably did hit on at least an edge case which the jdk didn't handle as well as you'd hope - if not a actual jdk bug.
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>> But interesting that you think there is a bug in my code that could be causing this to happen, its only been reported once by one user so going to be difficult to track down
>> Probably in or calling into native.
> I don't think I said anything about it being your code. Although I would say it's possible it's your code. I usually tend to suspect mine first in these situations. Probably doing something strange to hit a jdk edge case.
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To be clear I'm not taking any offense that it could be my code, I just 
didn't think I could cause a crash. For example in this case if I'm 
recursively calling something I would just expect a java
|StackOverflowError, I think if I did hit ||edge case which the jdk 
didn't handle as well as hoped that would be a jdk bug in my book. |

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|My application doesnt really contain any native code written by me, there is a little bit of Applescript and that is it.|
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