While debugging a compiler issue, a VM assertion gets triggered
The customer was using the options PrintCompilation/CIStart/CIstart
to figure out which of the compilations were causing the VM to core
dump problem.

Note: this is the second assertion that Verizon has encountered the
      while debugging this problem. The previous one was (will be)
      documented in Escalation #533255

The customer added the -XX:PrintCompilation flag and it fell over.

Here's the details

- JDK1.3.1_02 (they have an early access version) + 533255_libjvm_g.so
  (This is binary relief for escalation 533255)
 
- VM started with -XX:PrintCompilation flags
- Solaris 8
- Its a compiler_2 issue.
- BEA are involved (Weblogic 6.0SP2 +Special patch)



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<snipped> list of compilations snipped for clarity, the full log is attached.
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12056 b weblogic.ejb20.manager.StatelessManager::destroyInstance (48 bytes)
12057 b weblogic.ejb20.EJBLogger::logExcepDuringInvocFromHome (24 bytes)
12058 b sun.io.ByteToCharUTF8::convert (915 bytes)
12059 b sun.misc.SoftCache$ValueCell::access$000 (5 bytes)
12060 b com.verizon.utils.xml.XmlParse::addNode (27 bytes)
12061 b sun.misc.SoftCache$ValueCell::access$100 (5 bytes)
12062 !b com.verizon.utils.cache.cacheManager::insertUserInCache (117 bytes)
12063 b sun.misc.SoftCache$ValueCell::isValid (16 bytes)
11/28/2001 16:50:09 EDT 6 223 - Getting people cache
12064 b com.verizon.utils.xml.XmlParse::getValue (53 bytes)
12065 s b weblogic.ejb20.pool.StatelessSessionPool::destroyBean (57 bytes)
12066 b com.verizon.utils.xml.XmlParse::findPath (154 bytes)
12067 !b weblogic.ejb20.internal.BaseEJBHome::handleSystemException (96 bytes)
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# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, assertion failure
# Please report this error at
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#
# assert(Universe::is_heap_or_null(r), "bad receiver")
#
# Error ID: /jpse/patc/1.3.1/hotspot//src/share/vm/opto/runtime.cpp, 1184 [
Patched ]
#
# Problematic Thread: prio=5 tid=0x49f0b8 nid=0x2d runnable
#
Dumping core....
VM option '+PrintCompilation'
VM option 'CIStart=8000'
VM option 'NewSize=384m'
VM option 'MaxNewSize=384m'

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