A while ago I posted a question about a segmentation fault error I was getting in Xerces. The machine is SuSE Linux 7.1 and the application was fine with J2SDK 1.3 but when I switched to J2SDK 1.3.1 it aborted with a segmentation fault in the call to new DOMParser().
Since then I have discovered that this is a documented problem (Sun Java bug database ID 4466587). The problem appears when an exception is thrown inside a deeply recursive call and seems to be related to glibc-2.2-x. I gather that glibc-2.1-x enforced a 2M stack size limit but glibc-2.2-x does not, but it can only handle larger stacks if it's compiled with --enable-kernel=2.4.0 . The workaround is to set 'ulimit -s 2048' in your bash shell or 'limit stacksize 2048' in tcsh before starting the VM. I have not tried recompiling glibc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
