Concatenation of String Constants causes compiler error

Name: boT120536 Date: 07/22/2001


1.3.0, 1.3.1,

Long String constants (>20K <64K)
which are composed using the plus operator concatenating
a large number (>2000)
short Strings (between 4..20 characters each)
cause the compiler to crash with stack overflow

In 1.3:
java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:546)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:546)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:546)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:546)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:546)

in 1.4:
java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:680)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:686)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:686)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:686)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:686)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.v8.parser.Parser.foldStrings(Parser.java:686)

Source code example:

  private static String PCDATA=
        /*0000*/ "Sun "+
        /*0001*/ "Microsystems "+
        /*0002*/ "Internationalization "+
        /*0003*/ "Course "+
        ... // about 6000 more short lines
        /*17be*/ "recognize "+
        /*17bf*/ "grammatical "+
        /*17c0*/ "forms "+
        /*17c1*/ "feature "+
        /*17c2*/ "spellchecker "+
        /*17c3*/ "Separation "+
        "";
(Review ID: 128575)
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