Description Andrew Clement 2011-08-05 12:17:24 EDT

The file grails.util.BuildSettings contains bytecode where the constructors are recursive.

You can't compile this in Java

A() {
  this();
}

but groovy generates some code where it switches on a value in the ctor and if it is a certain value, the recursive ctor call is made.  I imagine this 'never happens' in practice but because it is in the bytecode it trips up the AspectJ code which inlines this() calls before weaving - since it gets into an infinite loop.

For now, just keep track of ctors making the recursive call and so don't get trapped in the infinite loop.