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Java 7 Ships With Severe Bug

Posted by Soulskill on from the meeting-expectations dept.

Lisandro writes "Lucid Imagination just posted an announcement about a severe bug in the recently released Java 7. Apparently some loops are mis-compiled due to errors in the HotSpot compiler optimizations, which causes programs to fail. This bug affects several Apache projects directly — Apache Lucene Core and Apache Solr have already raised a warning, noting that the bug might be present in Java 6 as well."

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  1. Should I turn off javascript in my browser for now by kotku · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or is it only a desktop problem?

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  2. Re:The bug is widely known... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Java is amongst the world's most widely installed malware. For some reason, Oracle was even championing the fact that this malware had over 1 billion downloads.

  3. Re:Should I turn off javascript in my browser for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    o -- Joke

    O -- You
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  4. Re:Should I turn off javascript in my browser for by arth1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You may think that the joke was obvious, but today is System Administrator Day. People who don't know that difference (or the difference between a CPU and hard drive, for that matter) is what sysadmins deal with every day. Nine times out of ten when users ask a really stupid question it's because they really don't know.

    You would probably think I was joking if I told you that a user was worried because his java had a hot spot. The joke would be on you.