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GWT 1.6 crashes (and a fix)

There’s a bug in the latest Java 1.6  that Apple provides that gets tickled by the GWT 1.6 compiler.  It manifests as a reproducible HotSpot compiler crash that looks like this:

    [java] Invalid memory access of location 00000000 rip=01160767

When you look into the crash logs that Java produces (found under ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/java_*), you can see that HotSpot was compiling a method when it crashed:

 Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (1.6.0_07-b06-57 mixed mode macosx-amd64)
Current thread (0x0000000101843800):  JavaThread "CompilerThread1" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=1756672000, stack(0x0000000168a4b000,0x0000000168b4b000)]
Stack: [0x0000000168a4b000,0x0000000168b4b000]
Current CompileTask:
C2:637      org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.lookup.ParameterizedMethodBinding.<init>(Lorg/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedTypeBinding;Lorg/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/MethodBinding;)V (596 bytes)

The workaround is to disable JIT of some JDT methods using some advanced JVM command-line arguments.  Using Ant, you can tack them on to your GWT compiler task <java> blocks, like so:

<java classname="com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler" classpathref="compileClassPath@{module}" fork="true" failonerror="true">
    ...
    <jvmarg value="-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith" />
    <jvmarg value="-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedTypeBinding,&lt;init&gt;" />
    <jvmarg value="-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,&lt;init&gt;" />

By applying those commands, you ask the HotSpot compiler to skip those methods (relying on the interpreter to run them).  You’ll know it’s working if you see this during your compile:

[java] CompilerOracle: exclude org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode.forwardDeltaWith
[java] CompilerOracle: exclude org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedTypeBinding.<init>
[java] CompilerOracle: exclude org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding.<init>
[java] Compiling module com.dotspots.ExtensionModule

I’m hoping that Apple eventually gets around to releasing an updated Java 1.6 for OSX.  This bug was fixed in mainline Java a very long time ago!

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6 Responses to “GWT 1.6 crashes (and a fix)”

  1. AppEngine+Java+OSX “Invalid memory access” on deploy « grack.com says:
    April 17, 2009 at 1:51 am

    [...] is the same error I hit before (see my earlier post), but it happens in Eclipse during the “deploy to AppEngine” phase.  You’ll see [...]

  2. The final word on Google Eclipse plugin OSX crashes « grack.com says:
    April 19, 2009 at 9:40 pm

    [...] blogged about the subject of GWT JVM crashes far too much (here and here).  This is, I hope, the final word on the subject.  I spent some time disassembling the [...]

  3. Luiz says:
    May 4, 2009 at 6:02 am

    Hey! Thanks for the workaround!
    Just wanted to point that this problem occurs not only on Apple, we also faced it on a Linux 64 bits server. The same workaround worked and now we’re hoping the sysadmin will soon upgrade the JVM.

    Thank you!

    Luiz

  4. fylb says:
    May 12, 2009 at 5:27 am

    And for maven compilation:

    <![CDATA["-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedTypeBinding,"]]>
    <![CDATA["-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,"]]>

    …

    org.codehaus.mojo
    gwt-maven-plugin
    ${gwt.plugin.maven}

    com.foo.bar

    -Xmx512m ${gwt.arg1} ${gwt.arg2} ${gwt.arg3}

    compile

    • fylb says:
      May 12, 2009 at 5:30 am

      <properties>
      <gwt.arg1><![CDATA["-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/core/internal/dtree/DataTreeNode,forwardDeltaWith"]]></gwt.arg1>
      <gwt.arg2><![CDATA["-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedTypeBinding,<init>"]]></gwt.arg2>
      <gwt.arg3><![CDATA["-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/ParameterizedMethodBinding,<init>"]]></gwt.arg3>
      </properties>

      …

      <plugins>
      <plugin>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
      <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>${gwt.plugin.maven}</version>
      <executions>
      <execution>
      <configuration>
      <modules>
      <module>com.foo.Bar</module>
      </modules>
      <extraJvmArgs>-Xmx512m ${gwt.arg1} ${gwt.arg2} ${gwt.arg3}</extraJvmArgs>
      </configuration>

  5. jottos says:
    August 5, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    thanks!

    this was a head scratcher, as it was still broken even with 1.6.0_05-b13

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