JVM crash on touchbar mac (other platforms work fine)

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The Java VM crashes on a 2018 Touchbar Macbook pro. Other platforms (and macs without touchbar) work great. When using a standard AWT/Swing build of the same code, there is no crash.

> Task :runJvmFirstThread FAILED
-XstartOnFirstThread not supported via Jogl, switching to an experimental native jna-based implementation
pixelFormat: 140203200597728
openGLContext: 140203226417888
contentView: 140203200489312
NSDefaultRunLoopMode: native@0x7fff849d1540
[timerWithTimeInterval:invocation:repeats:, timerWithFireDate:target:selector:userInfo:, scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:repeats:block:, timerWithTimeInterval:repeats:block:, allocWithZone:, timerWithTimeInterval:target:selector:userInfo:repeats:, scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:target:selector:userInfo:repeats:, scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:invocation:repeats:]
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00007fff61e56415, pid=919, tid=775
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (11.0.4+10) (build 11.0.4+10-b304.77)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (11.0.4+10-b304.77, mixed mode, tiered, compressed oops, g1 gc, bsd-amd64)
# Problematic frame:
# C  [libobjc.A.dylib+0xb415]  class_conformsToProtocol+0x138
#
# No core dump will be written. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /Users/nicolaiemig/dev/engineEmi/hs_err_pid919.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
#   https://youtrack.jetbrains.com
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

JVM crashlog is on pastebin, because its huge

1. Version of JNA and related jars
   gluegen: 2.3.2
   jna: 5.5.0
   joal: 2.3.2
   jog: 2.3.2
2. Version and vendor of the java virtual machine
   13.0.1 (Oracle Corporation 13.0.1+9) (other VMs give this error woo
3. Operating system / System architecture
   Mac OS X 10.15.1 x86_64
4. Steps to reproduce
   A) Download Sample project here. Its a gradle project:
   B) Import build.gradle file
   C) Run gradle task "runJvmFirstThread for JNA implementation (crashes) or gradle task runJvm for AWT/Swing implementation (does not crash). The tasks are unter gradle -> korge-run group

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