Sometimes a compilation seems to mess up things and weird things start to happen like analyses that loop and take up all memory, resulting in an unusable Eclipse instance. To fix this I delete the .build .cache .shadowdir .spxcache .spxindex bin and include directories and rebuild the project.

Submitted by Gabriël Konat on 22 February 2012 at 17:03

Some suggestions to try to diagnose this: did you try this without rebuilding the project? Project cleanups currently shouldn’t affect the Stratego build. Maybe a normal restart already fixes it? If not, maybe you can take a diff of the generated .ctree files created by the Stratego build?

Restarting or rebuilding did not fix the issue. Cleaning up all the build files, restarting eclipse and then building again fixed it. I’ll have a look at the ctree if it occurs again.