Compilation hangs for a class with field double d = 2.2250738585072012e-308
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I have come across an interesting situation. A coworker committed some changes, which would not compile on my machine neither from the IDE (Eclipse) nor from a command line (Maven). The problem manifested in the compilation process taking 100% CPU and only killing the process would help to stop it. After some analysis the cause of the problem was located and resolved. It turned out be a line "double d = 2.2250738585072012e-308" (without semicolon at the end) in one of the interfaces. The following snipped duplicates it.
public class WeirdCompilationIssue {
double d = 2.2250738585072012e-308
}
Why would compiler hang? A language edge case?
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