How do you crash a JVM?

Question

I was reading a book on programming skills wherein the author asks the interviewee, \"How do you crash a JVM?\" I thought that you could do so by writing an infinite for-loo

Answer 1

If you want to crash JVM - use the following in Sun JDK 1.6_23 or below:

Double.parseDouble("2.2250738585072012e-308");

This is due to a bug in Sun JDK - also found in OpenJDK. This is fixed from Oracle JDK 1.6_24 onwards.