[aarch64-port-dev ] 8212043: Request for help with Submit Failure

[Pengfei Li (Arm Technology China)]

Hi Andrew Dinn,

> Pengfei, I think a portable way to define +/-INFINITY will be to use the values
> 1.0D/0.0D or -1.0D/0.0D.
> 
> We might want to introduce some local defines for them.
> 
> I'm just checking that this definition works on AArch64 (it ought to as it uses
> gcc) and will then resubmit to see if sparc also accepts it.

This is my rebased webrev with the INFINITY issue fixed.
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~pli/rfr/8212043/webrev.02/

The +/-INFINITY definitions for float/double are added into type.cpp/hpp. 
I've tested the build on x86 and AArch64 and it's good. Hope other platforms wouldn't be broken this time.

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Thanks,
Pengfei