When one entry of font.properties.ja is commented out, Hotspot crashed.

1. Reproduce

 (1) Comment out a line of Font definition entries in font.properties.ja
     as follow.
    
.....

monospaced.plain.0=\uff2d\uff33 \u30b4\u30b7\u30c3\u30af,SHIFTJIS_CHARSET
monospaced.plain.1=Courier New,ANSI_CHARSET
monospaced.plain.2=WingDings,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED
#monospaced.plain.3=Symbol,SYMBOL_CHARSET,NEED_CONVERTED

....
 
     The 4th line is commented out.

 (2) Compile the attached "test.java" with JDK1.3.1(fcs)

 (3) Invoke the command, "java test"

  -> You will see the message in the attached file, "err-msg-in-DOS-window,txt"

2. Configration

 (1) PCs

    MPU : Pentium II 400[MHz]
    Mem.: 256[MByte]
    OS : WindowsNT 4.0(SP5,Japanese)

 (2) JDK Ver.

    java version "1.3.1"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-b24)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1-b24, mixed mode)

 (3) Note
 
    - This does not happened with Merlin beta_refresh b70.