HS16 and HS17 are affected.

% java -XX:+DoEscapeAnalysis -XX:+OptimizeStringConcat -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=6 -Xmx2560m -Xms2560m -Xmn2g -Xss256k -cp jbb.jar:check.jar spec.jbb.JBBmain

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# To suppress the following error report, specify this argument
# after -XX: or in .hotspotrc: SuppressErrorAt=/escape.cpp:2285
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (/export0/BUILD_AREA/jdk6_18/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto/escape.cpp:2285), pid=13269, tid=13
# Error: assert(nt != PointsToNode::UnknownType,"all nodes should be known")
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# JRE version: 6.0_18-b05
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (16.0-b12-fastdebug mixed mode solaris-x86 )
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /export/kvn/refworkload/benchmarks/specjbb2005/hs_err_pid13269.log
#
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Caused by dead CreateEx node as input to Phi:

Current function is ConnectionGraph::build_connection_graph
 2285 assert(nt != PointsToNode::UnknownType, "all nodes should be known");

 236 CreateEx === 1 1 [[ 128 ]] #java/lang/Throwable:NotNull * Oop:java/lang/Throwable:NotNull * !jvms: History::buildData @ bci:28
 505 Phi === 496 376 495 [[ 128 ]] #java/lang/OutOfMemoryError:NotNull:exact * Oop:java/lang/OutOfMemoryError:NotNull:exact *
 125 Region === 125 1 1 1 1 496 1 [[ 125 126 127 128 267 ]] !jvms: History::buildData @ bci:13
 128 Phi === 125 1 1 1 1 505 236 [[ 290 ]] #java/lang/Throwable:NotNull * Oop:java/lang/Throwable:NotNull * !jvms: History::buildData @ bci:13

CreateEx node becamo dead in GraphKit::replace_call() method:

  if (ejvms == NULL) {
    // No exception edges to simply kill off those paths
    C->gvn_replace_by(callprojs.catchall_catchproj, C->top());
    C->gvn_replace_by(callprojs.catchall_memproj, C->top());
    C->gvn_replace_by(callprojs.catchall_ioproj, C->top());


I set P4 since in Product VM it works fine since these edges will be skipped in ConnectionGraph::remove_deferred().