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Bug 327613

Summary: FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$HistoryComparator violates the Comparator contract
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Dmitry Karasik <Dmitry_Karasik>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: daniel_megert
Version: 3.5.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dmitry Karasik CLA 2010-10-12 16:45:26 EDT 
Open the Open Type dialog with ctrl-shift-T
start typing around quickly.

every so often I get an error dialog and the following logged to my error log:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
	at java.util.TimSort.mergeHi(TimSort.java:868)
	at java.util.TimSort.mergeAt(TimSort.java:485)
	at java.util.TimSort.mergeCollapse(TimSort.java:410)
	at java.util.TimSort.sort(TimSort.java:214)
	at java.util.TimSort.sort(TimSort.java:173)
	at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:653)
	at java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:217)
	at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$ContentProvider.getSortedItems(FilteredItemsSelectionDialog.java:2837)
	at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$ContentProvider.rememberResult(FilteredItemsSelectionDialog.java:2850)
	at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$FilterJob.filterContent(FilteredItemsSelectionDialog.java:2186)
	at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$FilterJob.internalRun(FilteredItemsSelectionDialog.java:2124)
	at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$FilterJob.doRun(FilteredItemsSelectionDialog.java:2096)
	at org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog$FilterJob.run(FilteredItemsSelectionDialog.java:2083)
	at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
Comment 1 Dani Megert CLA 2010-10-13 02:17:29 EDT 
Dmitry, which VM are you using? This looks like a duplicate of bug 295920.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 295920 ***