The customer is seeing an assertion in Java 7 when running gbyc00102 JCK test,
on Linux/x86 (7b147 build) as shown below. The test passes if the
assertion is suppressed. (The failure happens quickly and every
time.) They've also tried more recent builds, 7u2b9 and 8b4, and got
the same failure.

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% env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proj/tests/java/jck/JCK-70-GA/JCK-runtime-7/native/linux/x86/32 /proj/hotspot/users/jgragg/images/javasoft/linux/i486/jdk7/jdk1.7.0/fastdebug/bin/java -classpath /proj/tests/java/jck/JCK-70-GA/JCK-runtime-7/classes -agentlib:jckjvmti=gbyc00102 javasoft.sqe.tests.vm.jvmti.gbyc001.gbyc00102.gbyc00102 -platform.jvmtiSupported true
# To suppress the following err24583.log
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (/HUDSON/workspace/jdk7-2-build-linux-i586-product/jdk7/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims/jvmtiClassFileReconstituter.cpp:682), pid=24583, tid=3086723984
# assert(len == 3 || (code == Bytecodes::_invokeinterface && len ==5)) failed: sanity check
#
# JRE version: 7.0-b147
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (21.0-b17-fastdebug mixed mode linux-x86 )
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /tmp/hs_err_pid24583.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Current thread is 3086723984
Dumping core ...
Abort
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