Getting errors in SEPCJVM2008 with the 7 u40 b34 / b35 .

In 7 u40 b35
java version "1.7.0_40-ea"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_40-ea-b35)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.0-b54, mixed mode)

We see the following issues in SPECJVM2008 ( e.g. on Linux but it is likely a cross platform issue ).

   ….
  Benchmark: xml.transform
  Run mode: timed run
  Test type: multi
  Threads: 8
  Warmup: 60s
  Iterations: 1
  Run length: 60s

xom canonicalization of chess-fo/Kasparov-Karpov.xml.SAX crashed.

 
(Please send xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.SAX.out or xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.SAX.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

Result of chess-fo/Kasparov-Karpov.xml.SAX transformation differs from canonical one.

(Please send xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.SAX.out or xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.SAX.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

xom canonicalization of chess-fo/Kasparov-Karpov.xml.DOM crashed.

(Please send xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.DOM.out or xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.DOM.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

Result of chess-fo/Kasparov-Karpov.xml.DOM transformation differs from canonical one.

(Please send xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.DOM.out or xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.DOM.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

xom canonicalization of chess-fo/Kasparov-Karpov.xml.Stream crashed.

(Please send xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.Stream.out or xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.Stream.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

Result of chess-fo/Kasparov-Karpov.xml.Stream transformation differs from canonical one.

(Please send xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.Stream.out or xml_out/chess-fo.Kasparov-Karpov.xml.Stream.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

xom canonicalization of jenitennison/index.xml.SAX crashed.

(Please send xml_out/jenitennison.index.xml.SAX.out or xml_out/jenitennison.index.xml.SAX.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

Result of jenitennison/index.xml.SAX transformation differs from canonical one.

(Please send xml_out/jenitennison.index.xml.SAX.out or xml_out/jenitennison.index.xml.SAX.out.diff along with the reporter's result.)

xom canonicalization of jenitennison/index.xml.DOM crashed.

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These errors do not show up with 7 u25 , e.g.

java version "1.7.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_25-b15)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.25-b01, mixed mode)

Also with older builds of 7 u40 ( before b34) they were not seen .
It seems that these errors came with the b34 changes in jaxp, most likely :

changeset: 8016648: FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING set to true or false causes SAXParseException to be thrown