[fedora-java] [daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com: [cross-project-issues-dev] PLEASE READ: Eclipse Crash with Java 7 64-bit]

[Andrew Overholt]

Thankfully this doesn't happen for me with OpenJDK 7:

java version "1.7.0_b147"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (fedora-0.1.20110803.fc17-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0-b17, mixed mode)

Andrew

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> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:31:56 +0200
> From: Daniel Megert <daniel_megert at ch.ibm.com>
> To: Cross project issues <cross-project-issues-dev at eclipse.org>,
> 	eclipse-dev at eclipse.org
> Subject: [cross-project-issues-dev] PLEASE READ: Eclipse Crash with Java 7
> 	64-bit
> 
> When running Eclipse with Oracle Java 7 64-bit JRE (b147), Eclipse will 
> crash when it tries to index help documentation that isn't shipped 
> together with its index. The crash happens in Apache Lucene due to a bug 
> in the Oracle VM (
> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7070134). Oracle 
> confirmed the problem and is planning to ship the fix with the next 
> official update, currently planned for October 18.
> 
> The crash can be avoided by using the -XX:-UseLoopPredicate VM argument 
> (-vmargs -XX:-UseLoopPredicate).
> 
> Dani
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