Eclipse EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION crash

Question

Today at work my eclipse started to crash repeatedly. It is enough to open it and start editing files to have a crash after few minutes. I reinstalled everything: Eclipse, W

Answer 1

This is a known JVM bug in C2 compiler: JDK-8154831.

Try adding the following JVM argument:
-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.TypeConverter::*

Answer 2

This is an Java issue - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8154831 it has been fixed in 9 and backported to 8u112. Kindly upgrade your Java to 8u112 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html ) Excluding method from compilation may not be the good solution -XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.TypeConverter::*