We recently switched a project over to Java 8, including setting AJC compliance level to 1.8.
It seems the compliance level change has affected our builds somewhat, since they are tending to fail with errors like the one below.
Upping the max heap size fixes it (before it was 1024m which you'd think is big enough), and if it's just that 1.8 has a higher memory requirement that is fine, but if not I'm wondering if something else could be wrong (especially since it's a GC overhead error and not heap size).
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal
uk.co.aquilauk:aspectj-maven-plugin:1.0:test-compile (default) on project
adm-q-desktop: AJC compiler errors:
[ERROR] abort trouble in:
[ERROR] <class name removed>Test --
(OutOfMemoryError) GC overhead limit exceeded
[ERROR] GC overhead limit exceeded
[ERROR] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded
[ERROR] at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1969)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.MemberImpl.signatureToTypes(MemberImpl.java:215)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.MemberImpl.<init>(MemberImpl.java:56)
[ERROR] at org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedMemberImpl.<init>(ResolvedMemberImpl.java:82)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelMethod.<init>(BcelMethod.java:85)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelObjectType.getDeclaredMethods(BcelObjectType.java:291)
[ERROR] at org.aspectj.weaver.ReferenceType.getDeclaredMethods(ReferenceType.java:864)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType$MethodGetter.get(ResolvedType.java:234)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType$MethodGetter.get(ResolvedType.java:232)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.Iterators$4$1.hasNext(Iterators.java:213)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.Iterators$4.hasNext(Iterators.java:230)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelWorld.makeJoinPointSignatureForMethodInvocation(BcelWorld.java:665)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelShadow.makeMethodCall(BcelShadow.java:781)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelClassWeaver.matchInvokeInstruction(BcelClassWeaver.java:3259)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelClassWeaver.match(BcelClassWeaver.java:2905)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelClassWeaver.match(BcelClassWeaver.java:2685)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelClassWeaver.weave(BcelClassWeaver.java:480)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelClassWeaver.weave(BcelClassWeaver.java:100)
[ERROR] at
org.aspectj.weaver.bcel.BcelWeaver.weave(BcelWeaver.java:1697)