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[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Hello all,

  Some time ago, a user of freecol reported openjdk segfaults (not
Null pointer exception, but real segmentation fault) while running
freecol (either 0.8.4 or 0.9.2 versions). As far as I can tell,
freecol does not embed native code, so the segfault necessarily arises
from a bug within the interpreter. Freecol is a heavily multithread
program, and segfaults systematically occur in the thread that
apparently does garbage collection.

  Do you have any clue ? Details are posted at the bug report:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568657

  I'm afraid I'm helpless with respect to that bug, but I'd be happy
to provide more information if you wish. At least on amd64, the bug is
unfortunately too easy to reproduce (just run freecol, play a few
turns, and there you go !).

  Many thanks,

      Vincent