How serious is the Java7 “Solr/Lucene” bug?

Question

Apparently Java7 has some nasty bug regarding loop optimization: Google search.

From the reports and bug descriptions I find it hard to judge how significant this bu

Answer 1

Simple way to reproduce the bug. Open eclipse (Indigo in my case), and Go to Help/Search. Enter a search string, you will notice that eclipse crashes. Have a look at the log.

# Problematic frame:
# J  org.apache.lucene.analysis.PorterStemmer.stem([CII)Z
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

---------------  T H R E A D  ---------------

Current thread (0x0000000007b79000):  JavaThread "Worker-46" [_thread_in_Java, id=264, stack(0x000000000f380000,0x000000000f480000)]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000005, reading address 0x00000002f62bd80e

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