On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:00:37 GMT, "Bruce Lee"
<blah@blahbllbllahblah.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

I've never had such an error.  What are we doing different?

What is your platform?  Does this happen with only a certain app?

With earlier versions of 1.5 I had a problem for which the crash report said
that an "unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine".
However, in my case the problem seems to be gone in 1.5.0_05-b05.  Details
of the original problem are in a thread from a year ago:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_thread/thread/6e
12e8e3c39c7cc4/fc26f4eb1aa040d0

It seems that there is no general answer to the stability question - the
latest version seems to be stable for some programs and unstable for others.

For those who imagine that this bug was fixed after Sun responding to my
concerns, Sun refused my bug report saying they needed a "compact test case
that simulates the bug you have reported".  Since it is not trivial to do so
for JVM bugs that occur about 5% of the time in huge programs I devoted some
time to helping find their bug but they never accepted a bug report.

I am not surprised to find that bugs of this type remain.

Re:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/browse_frm/thread
/f8fd2e29795306c4/c2a2ecaff6d4cccd?lnk=st&q=%22bruce+lee%22+stable+1.5&rnum=
7&hl=en#c2a2ecaff6d4cccd

Thanks for the feedback - I missed the original posting so I've dug it out
of google.

I'm still getting the odd random error (below) in various java programs on
Windows XP/2000. And like Mickey Segal, don't have a test case because it is
happening randomly in various java apps.

# An unexpected error has been detected by HotSpot Virtual Machine:
#
#  EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at pc=0x6d6c09b4, pid=324,
tid=1780
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.5.0_05-b05 mixed mode, sharing)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [jvm.dll+0x109b4]
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as hs_err_pid324.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#

the stability of a JVM is always inversely proportional
to the stability of the programs one makes :)