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Well, it wasn't really my problem, but, that's good information.
Thanks..
Stan
Philippe Johan 999900280 wrote:
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> Stan Hughes:
>
> In my experience, these happen for only one of two reasons. Either you
> have accessed an array past its boundries, or, you have written to the
> NULL segment by using a null pointer as a target operand for an
> assignment... The latter is harder to do in java...
>
> Of course, I'm fairly new to java so my experience of 12 years of C,
> C++, Fortran and others may not be applicable...
>
> Your right Stan, it is not applicable. Actually neither of the things you
> mention
> will cause that in java. Accessing an array past its boundries generates
> a java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException and trying to use a null pointer
> generates a java.lang.NullPointerException both of which are just treated
> from then on like any other Exception.
>
> In general from my experience your JVM dies for one of the following reasons:
> - the JVM has a bug, misconfiguration or OS conflict none of which your code
> has much effect on.
> - you are using native code (via JNI) that is doing the things you mention
> above.
>
> I have once written a small java application that would crash the HP JVM
> consistently,
> and run just fine on Suns JVMS. This was a bug in the HP JVM and has since
> been fixed.
>
> regards,
>
> Johan Philippe
> E&Y Consulting
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