FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
Both 1.7.0_45 and jdk1.8.0-b129 fail.

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.10-100.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Dec 2 20:28:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux (Fedora 20)

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
While working on a bug in the Kawa Scheme-to-bytecode compiler, I accidentally generated a class file that caused a later use of javac to StackOverflowError. The Kawa bug was that a class produced by the Kawa compiler (compiling gnu/kawa/slib/srfi69.scm) was written in the wrong place, overwriting gnu/mapping/Procedure.class. Then a later call to javac caused the latter to be confused (no surprise) and eventually StackOverflowError:

The system is out of resources.
Consult the following stack trace for details.
java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$UnaryVisitor.visit(Types.java:4481)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types.supertype(Types.java:2289)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1953)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1942)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Type$ClassType.accept(Type.java:763)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$DefaultTypeVisitor.visit(Types.java:4400)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types.asSuper(Types.java:1939)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1955)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1942)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Type$ClassType.accept(Type.java:763)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$DefaultTypeVisitor.visit(Types.java:4400
etc

STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
$ javac -cp kawa.jar servlet/*.java

I will attach the kawa.jar and servlet/*.java code.

kawa.jar includes the offending gnu/mapping/Procedure.class (which really should have been kawa/lib/srfi69.class).

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
An error message from javac.
ACTUAL -
The system is out of resources.
Consult the following stack trace for details.
java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$UnaryVisitor.visit(Types.java:4481)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types.supertype(Types.java:2289)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1953)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1942)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Type$ClassType.accept(Type.java:763)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$DefaultTypeVisitor.visit(Types.java:4400)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types.asSuper(Types.java:1939)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1955)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$15.visitClassType(Types.java:1942)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Type$ClassType.accept(Type.java:763)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$DefaultTypeVisitor.visit(Types.java:4400)


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
I plan to fix the Kawa bug ASAP ...