A very short test case, derived from Modena test ciner093, causes
javac to abort.

algol% cat X.java
 
class X{
  final int i;
  int func() throws Exception { throw new Exception();}
  {
   try{ i = func(); }
   catch (Exception e) { i = 4; }
  }
  public static void main(String[] arg) {
     X ox = new X();
  }
}
algol% /set/sqe/java/anat/sparc-S2/jdk1.1.4/bin/javac -d . X.java
sun.tools.java.CompilerError: copyInline
        at sun.tools.tree.TryStatement.copyInline(TryStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.CompoundStatement.copyInline(CompoundStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.InlineMethodExpression.copyInline(InlineMethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.MethodExpression.makeVarInits(MethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.MethodExpression.checkValue(MethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.MethodExpression.check(MethodExpression.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.ExpressionStatement.check(ExpressionStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Statement.checkBlockStatement(Statement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.CompoundStatement.check(CompoundStatement.java)
        at sun.tools.tree.Statement.checkMethod(Statement.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceField.check(SourceField.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkFields(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.checkInternal(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.SourceClass.check(SourceClass.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java)
        at sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java)
error: An error has occurred in the compiler; please file a bug report (http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi).
1 error