There have been recent changes to the UTF_8 encoder in OpenJDK that might be responsible. You can try to isolate the exact change to UTF_8 that could cause this difference, and then create a proper test case.
changeset: 497:3dcc69147ff9 user: sherman date: Fri Aug 22 14:37:46 2008 -0700 summary: 4486841: UTF-8 decoder should adhere to corrigendum to Unicode 3.0.1 It is surprising that one can get StackOverflowError without a very long stack trace of methods invoking themselves recursively, which is not what we're seeing. Martin On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:38, Omair Majid <oma...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to generate xml reports from jtreg. The problem is that jtreg > throws a StackOverflowError when writing the output xml file when running > the jdk tests. The xml report works fine for the 16 compiler tests and 1351 > langtools tests. > > I am using Icedtea6 to run the tests. These are the commands it executes: > > $ mkdir -p test/jdk/JTwork test/jdk/JTreport > $ /notnfs/omajid/icedtea6/bootstrap/jdk1.6.0/bin/java \ > -Djavatest.report.kinds="xml text html" \ > -jar test/jtreg.jar -v1 -a -ignore:quiet \ > -w:test/jdk/JTwork -r:test/jdk/JTreport \ > -s -jdk:`pwd`/openjdk/control/build/linux-i586/j2sdk-image \ > `pwd`/openjdk/jdk/test \ > | tee test/check-jdk.log > > The error appears after the jtreg run completes: > > [ lots of output ] > Passed: vm/verifier/VerifyProtectedConstructor.java > Passed: vm/verifier/VerifyStackForExceptionHandlers.java > Test results: passed: 3,306; failed: 73; error: 5 > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError > at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8.updatePositions(UTF_8.java:76) > at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Encoder.encodeArrayLoop(UTF_8.java:411) > at sun.nio.cs.UTF_8$Encoder.encodeLoop(UTF_8.java:466) > at java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder.encode(CharsetEncoder.java:561) > at java.lang.StringCoding$StringEncoder.encode(StringCoding.java:258) > at java.lang.StringCoding.encode(StringCoding.java:290) > at java.lang.String.getBytes(String.java:954) > at > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.EncodingInfo.inEncoding(EncodingInfo.java:413) > at > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.EncodingInfo.access$100(EncodingInfo.java:62) > at > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.EncodingInfo$EncodingImpl.isInEncoding(EncodingInfo.java:205) > at > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.EncodingInfo$EncodingImpl.isInEncoding(EncodingInfo.java:181) > at > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.EncodingInfo$EncodingImpl.isInEncoding(EncodingInfo.java:181) > [...SNIP...] > at > com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.EncodingInfo$EncodingImpl.isInEncoding(EncodingInfo.java:181) > > > Has anyone ever seen this before? > > Thanks, > Omair > >