The application crashes at boot time when using 1.3.1_12-b02 (_11 as well)
use UseTLE in conjunction with the -server option on Windows.

Symptoms:
The application crashes always with-server -XX+UseTLE. -printCompilation shows that it crashes with different methods being compiled.
Excluding methods allows the application to  customer . It however crashes
later (methods being excluded 3 times with and without -xcomp).

The application never crashes with -Xint or -client in conjunction with -XX:UseTLE.

The application crashes without any hot spot err id.

The application crashes as well with a fulldebug version.
It runs into assertion failures.

See two following logs.

Assertion seems to be


# assert(_no_handle_mark_nesting == 0, "allocating handle inside NoHandleMark")

#

# Error ID: D:\BUILD_AREA\jdk131-update\ws\fcs\hotspot\src\share\vm\runtime\handles.cpp, 18

#

# Problematic Thread: prio=5 tid=0x6d346d90 nid=0x188c runnable

#

[error occured during error reporting]

see attachment trace2.txt

-client option

In chaitin.cpp:
 PhaseChaitin::stretch_base_pointer_live_ranges:
 
 A non oop derived pointer is dealt like a oop to get base oop pointer. change:

------- chaitin.cpp -------
1894c1894
<           if( tj && tj->_offset != 0 ) {
---
>           if( tj && tj->_offset != 0 && tj->isa_oop_ptr()) {
avoid the crash in SwingSet2.
The binary delivered to customer for test.

The bug is solved in merlin beta2, before that version, all failed with -XX:+UseTLAB (UseTLE in 131). 
This part in graphKit.cpp gives well explaination:
  // We need a Region for the loop-back contended case.  The loop-back edge
  // is dead and the Region unused with TLABs.  We'll make it anyways and
  // rely on the optimizer to fold it away.  Then we'll do the folding in the
  // parser but it will simplify things to have all the logic around for the
  // general case.
So the true fix for this problem is buried in the big changes which occured from beta to beta2.

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2004-06-28

Above diff works for customer. 
A non OopPtr in this case (UseTLE applied) was used to get the base pointer caused this failure.  

  xxxxx@xxxxx   2004-08-25