It comes from deliberately using _. despite warnings against it.


----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Clark <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 16:44
Subject: [Jprogramming] A J phrase which crashes Java on the iMac
To: Programming forum <[email protected]>

> _.". 'circ'
> 
> ...causes a hard crash of J on the iMac which loses all J-related
> evidence but results in a bug report being mailed off to Apple.
> The report is headed: J quit unexpectedly while using the 
> libj.dylib plugin.
> 
> There's no facility for stopping the report being sent, so I've
> spammed Apple trying to investigate a capricious bug in my
> application, which turns out to be all down to this.
> 
> The string 'circ' can be replaced by: 'circl', 'chur', and (many?)
> words beginning 'chur'. Strangely, 'circle' works ok as expected.
> 
> Is anyone curious as to how someone might stumble upon a bug 
> like this?
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