--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/langtools/test/tools/javac/IllegalAnnotation.java	Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 2007 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/**
+ * @test  /nodynamiccopyright/
+ * @bug 5012028 6384539
+ * @summary javac crash when declare an annotation type illegally
+ *
+ * @compile/fail IllegalAnnotation.java
+ * @compile/fail/ref=IllegalAnnotation.out -XDdev -XDrawDiagnostics -XDstdout IllegalAnnotation.java
+ */
+class IllegalAnnotation {
+    {
+        @interface SomeAnnotation { }
+    }
+}