GCC bug 26858 (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26858) may
also effect other JVMs that run on linux *and* use SIGSEGV to generate
NullPointerExceptions. I don't know if such JVMs exist. But if they
do, it might be worthwhile for their maintainers to run the test case in
the PR to see what happens.
If GCJ is the only thing effected, I apologize for the noise.
David Daney