Eclipse crashes sometimes, but the crashes go away if i tell blackdown-jdk to interpret only (-Xint), that means no JIT compiling takes place as i understand. Because of this i think this is blackdown-jdk problem (not eclipse). Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. run eclipse 2. edit some java files with it Actual Results: 3. if you're unlucky enough you should experience java vm crash without any exceptions or error messages Expected Results: 3. if you see eclipse crash you should at least find something in the log files 4. run java with eclipse jars by hand, use java vm switch -Xint 5. problems go away sometimes eclipse crashes when opening some java source file, in that case it happened that i couldn't open that specific file until i modified it externally... now that i found the -Xint solution i have no problems anymore (but it's still a bug isn't it:)
there is not much that we can do about it and it works fine for me on x86 and amd64.