runThese demo tests crashed VM with following message:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
# Internal Error (4E4154495645294E53543F494116140E4350500070), pid=3240, tid=12301
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20030911140153.jmasa.baseline compiled mode)
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid3240.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
#
Abort
    4E4154495645294E53543F494116140E4350500070

Decodes to:

    nativeInst_ia64.cpp, 112

Here is command line to reproduce it:
ksh /net/vmsqe.sfbay/export/backup/testbase/runThese/doit -vm /net/vmsqe.sfbay/export/pit/tiger/JDK/latest/linux-ia64/bin/java -vmopts "-Xcomp "