GCC bug 26858 (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26858) may also effect other JVMs that run on linux *and* use SIGSEGV to generate NullPointerExceptions. I don't know if such JVMs exist. But if they do, it might be worthwhile for their maintainers to run the test case in the PR to see what happens. If GCJ is the only thing effected, I apologize for the noise. David Daney
