Re: [eclipse-dev] Termination after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_al

[Mat Booth <mat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 11:50, Hendrik Grewe <Hendrik.Grewe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi @list,
> I don't know if this is the right spot for asking this question/
> reporting this issue but if not maybe one of the subscribers could point
> me to the correct list/issuetracker/board.
>
> I recently got crashes with an application built on the Eclipse Platform
> when hovering over method signatures of (Java/Xtend) source code.
> This previously was no issue, and the application itself was not
> updated. The only log output I Cculd get when Eclipse crashes is:
>
>
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
>   what():  std::bad_alloc
>
> In search for the root of this issue I tried different Openjdk versions
> Openjdk 11 up to 17. Because i thought the issue may lay within the JVM
> itself.  No change.
>
> Then I started to check if the newest Eclipse Java IDE is having this
> issue still. The latest version did not show the crash but instead
> behaves normal.
>
> I found that the issue is resolved since version 4.18. Prior versions (I
> only tested 4.16, 4.17) still crashed with before mentioned exception
> when hovering over source code.
>
> Now my question:
> Is there any way to dig deeper and find the source of the crash?
> I feel the issue is somehow connected to ubuntus package updates (I am
> running a plain vanilla ubuntu 20.04lts on latest patchlevel).
>
> Is there any way to get the fix (which seems to be integrated in 4.18)
> for this issue "backported" to 4.16 ( since we are running an eclipse
> product which currently depends on version 4.16)?
>
>
> For any more information I'll be very grateful. If you need more
> information I'll happily provide them for you.
>

Is there a reason you can't update your eclipse platform to at least 4.18?

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Mat Booth
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