Andrew Haley wrote:
Thanks for the analysis and patch. We also have a fix from Dmitry Nadezhin that he posted here some time ago (but fell through the cracks for some reason). I expect this issue will be fixed soon.The post onhttp://www.exploringbinary.com/java-hangs-when-converting-2-2250738585072012e-308/describes a (on first sight) trivial bug when parsing strings into Java Double objects.
-Alan