Re: OSX Java 8 crash on Mavericks

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Taylor
On 14/02/2014 11:41, Michael Hall wrote: I was under the impressions that however bad my code was it shouldn't cause Java to crash in this way, is that not correct ? I believe that is the theory. So you probably did hit on at least an edge case which the jdk didn't handle as well as you'd hop

Re: OSX Java 8 crash on Mavericks

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Hall
> > I was under the impressions that however bad my code was it shouldn't cause > Java to crash in this way, is that not correct ? I believe that is the theory. So you probably did hit on at least an edge case which the jdk didn't handle as well as you'd hope - if not a actual jdk bug. > > B

Re: OSX Java 8 crash on Mavericks

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Taylor
On 14/02/2014 11:16, Michael Hall wrote: Not sure what you mean by update? If you have a bug report? The above sort of suggests you have something looping or too recursive going on with the native gui thread. Probably in or calling into native. I just meant do you know about this issue. I was u

Re: OSX Java 8 crash on Mavericks

2014-02-14 Thread Michael Hall
On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:58 AM, Paul Taylor wrote: > Crashed Thread: 0 AppKit Thread Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread > > Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGABRT) > Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0001043d5000 > > Application Specific Information: > *** Terminating app d