The testcase from HP (see below) reveals a HotSpot server crash related to loops. The crash can be avoided by setting LoopUnrollLimit=0. The test case has a huge jar. I will work with HP on trying to obtain the source and produce a smaller test case. The test doesn't fail with client compiler.

The crash dump (reproducible with the latest mantis build: 1.4.2-beta-b04):
#
# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, Internal Error
# Please report this error at
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (1.4.2-beta-b04 mixed mode)
#
# Error ID: 53484152454432554E54494D450E435050018D 01
#
# Problematic Thread: prio=5 tid=0x0002deb8 nid=0x1 runnable
#

TEST CASE TO REPRODUCE:

0. cd /net/knight1/export/tmp/hp_loop_bug/

1. Use ksh or bash

2. "source setenv.sh"

3. run myant

4. after a couple of minutes a crash will happen

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HP's customer is not comfortable giving the source to Sun. So, I won't be able to deliver a micro test case.

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