Bug 282197

Description Peter Elzner 2009-07-01 14:45:54 EDT

I am currently migrating a C# project to Java and came across the following problem:

The project makes use of a lot of constant values, declared as "final static" and depending on each other like in
  public final static int someValue4712 = someValue4711 + 42;
  
I am now creating a second class with a subclass in it.
When I try to reference one of these constant values from within the subclass,
I get a "Requesting Java AST from selection has ecountered a problem: java.lang.StackOverflowError"

I have uploaded some sample code here: http://www.diamond-download.de/eclipse/crash.zip
the code might look a bit stupid but it can reproduce the error.
There are two source files:
1. a class declaring the constants like this:

public class testClassConst
{
    public static final int someValue0 = 0;
    public static final int someValue1 = someValue0+1;
...
    public static final int someValue3999 = someValue3998+1;
}

2. and the main class:

public class testClass
{
    public class SubTestClass
    {
        public int GetSomeValue()
        {
            return testClassConst.someValue3999;
        }
    }
}

that's all you need to reproduce the error message. it comes up when you try to edit the main class.

side effects:
- error message pops up every now and then
- copy/paste does not work any more within the main class source-file
- syntax-highlighting does not work propperly in the affected file

Visual Studio 2008 has no problems displaying these files :-)

-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 1.2.0.20090619-0620 (org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.jdt 3.5.0.v20090527-2000-7r88FEeFJePyvYeA33DjZ_c1