An SDN user reported that they are seeing this in 1.3.1_03.
This was seen as bug 4312524 which has long been closed.
The problem is this code in interpreter_sparc.cpp

    // The following line has been deleted from the Intel version:
    __ stop("new exception propagation across deoptimization has not been tested yet");
    ...

The call to stop should be removed. The code in the file does the correct thing.
NOTE: this same stop message appears in all vm's up to and including mustang.
Changes made in 1.4 should make this code unreachable. So the stop is ok in
1.4 and beyound releases but ought to say something like "fatal no exception should be present".