[dep, 08Jan2003]

  In fact, it dumps core on its own:

    $ /usr/j2se/jre/bin/java_vm
    Segmentation Fault(coredump)
    139 $ pstack core
    core 'core' of 125339: /usr/j2se/jre/bin/java_vm
     ff2b0fb0 strlen (12598, 0, ffbfba98, 0, 0, 0) + 80
     ff30527c snprintf (24160, c8, 12598, 0, 81010100, ff00) + 68
     000119bc SetClassPath (0, 0, ff270000, ff3c2b14, 0, ff3d7820) + 34
     000111c8 main (1, ffbff98c, ffbff994, 22800, 0, 0) + 104
     00010d80 _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 108

  When running under mozilla 1.2, the stack trace is:

    core '/var/cores/core.java_vm.124767@1042058483' of 124767: java_vm
     ff2f0814 memset (31303431, 36343437, 39340a2d, 686f7374, ...) + 34

  (memset is a leaf function called from main)
  
  Interestingly, it seems to work fine under mozilla 1.1.