I tried zulu JDK 1.8.0_232, JVM crashed too... I think you find a bug of JVM ;-)
P.S. the code runs well if no `-Xverify:none` applied. D:\_TEMP\qqqq>java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_232" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.42.0.23-CA-win64) (build 1.8.0_232-b18) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Zulu 8.42.0.23-CA-win64) (build 25.232-b18, mixed mode) D:\_TEMP\qqqq>java -Xverify:none -jar D:\_DEV\Groovy\groovy\lib\groovy-3.0.0-rc-2.jar -e="new File('.').toPath()" =============== DEBUG MESSAGE: unimplemented bytecode ================ # # A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment: # # EXCEPTION_PRIV_INSTRUCTION (0xc0000096) at pc=0x00000000034d5776, pid=21040, tid=0x00000000000024cc # # JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Zulu 8.42.0.23-CA-win64) (8.0_232-b18) (build 1.8.0_232-b18) # Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (25.232-b18 mixed mode windows-amd64 compressed oops) # Problematic frame: # j org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaMethodSite.<clinit>()V+0 # # Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows # # An error report file with more information is saved as: # D:\_TEMP\qqqq\hs_err_pid21040.log # # If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit: # http://www.azulsystems.com/support/ # D:\_TEMP\qqqq> D:\_TEMP\qqqq> Cheers, Daniel.Sun ----- Apache Groovy committer & PMC member Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me Twitter: @daniel_sun -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html