Various higher vaues of HeapBaseMinAddress in combination with -Xmx and -XX:MaxPermSize parameters also lead to the same crash. Examples of such combinations:

-XX:HeapBaseMinAddress=2048m -Xmx1024m -XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:HeapBaseMinAddress=4048m -Xmx24m -XX:MaxPermSize=24m
-XX:HeapBaseMinAddress=3036m -Xmx32m -XX:MaxPermSize=32m
Specifying adresses 1968m and lower as a value for -XX:HeapBaseMinAddress results in a crash. The failure is specific to solaris-sparcv9.

$ uname -a
SunOS vm-v440-02 5.11 snv_150 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440

$ /java/re/jdk/7/promoted/all/b126/binaries/solaris-sparcv9/bin/java -d64 -XX:HeapBaseMinAddress=1968m -version
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xffffffff76420ea4, pid=10056, tid=2
#
# JRE version: 7.0-b126
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (20.0-b06 mixed mode solaris-sparc compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# j java.lang.Object.<init>()V+0
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /tmp/sd/hs_err_pid10056.log
                 -------------
  0 (0x000000007b0a8e60) [00|00| 2]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  1 (0x000000007b0a8e80) [00|00| 3]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  2 (0x000000007b0a8ea0) [00|00| 4]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  3 (0x000000007b0a8ec0) [00|00| 5]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  4 (0x000000007b0a8ee0) [00|00| 7]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  5 (0x000000007b0a8f00) [00|00| 8]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  6 (0x000000007b0a8f20) [00|00| 9]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  7 (0x000000007b0a8f40) [00|00| 12]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  8 (0x000000007b0a8f60) [00|00| 16]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 -------------
  9 (0x000000007b0a8f80) [00|b8| 17]
                 [ 0x000000007b0082a8]
                 [ 0x0000000000000000]
                 [ 0xffffffff80800000]
                 -------------
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Abort