Native crash on OS X while trying to reproduce memory leak.

[Mike Swingler]

On Oct 23, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2012-10-23, at 3:12 PM, Mike Swingler <swingler at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 23, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2012-10-23, at 1:26 PM, Scott Kovatch <scott.kovatch at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 21, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>> The crashed thread:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thread 28 Crashed:: CVDisplayLink
>>>>> 0   libsystem_kernel.dylib        	0x00007fff8f68a212 __pthread_kill + 10
>>>>> <snip>
>>>> 
>>>> All of that, except for the signal handling code, is Apple code. It's probably going to be hard to know if we fed it garbage or a bug in the GL driver.
>>> 
>>> What I expected.  Perhaps the crash report will eventually trickle down to somebody at Apple that can do something more.
>> 
>> Not if the JVM is catching it. HotSpot should actually not catch crashes that are on threads that are not attached to the JVM.
> 
> The standard OS X crash reporter window opened and I submitted the report.  Doesn't that mean that it will get in the queue to be reviewed by Apple?  (Perhaps after a few duplicate stack traces or something?)

It will be transmitted to Apple, however it will simply be glommed together with all of the other "crashes in 3rd party Java" if Java 7's HotSpot is busy handling the crash.

Regards,
Mike Swingler
Apple Inc.