Invalid memory access of location in Java

Question

I\'ve been working on a Java project for year. My code had been working fine for months. A few days ago I upgraded the Java SDK to the newest version 1.6.0_26 on my Mac (Sno

Answer 1

When a JVM starts crashing like that, it is a sign that something has broken the JVM's execution model.

Does your application include any native code? Does it use any 3rd-party libraries with native code components? If neither is true, then the chances are that this is a bug in the Apple port of the JVM. It could be a JIT compiler bug, or a bug in some JVM native code library.

What can you do about a bug like that?

Not a lot.

• Reduce your application by progressively chopping out bits until you have a small testcase that exhibits the problem.
• Based on the testcase, see if there's some empirical way to avoid the problem.
• Submit a bug report to Apple with the testcase.