OpenJDK 6 build 14 source posted

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi John,

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:53 -0800, John Coomes wrote:
> > > 32-bit systems are unaffected (not sure why).
> > 
> > It's a bug.  The code is basically this:
> > ...
> 
> This is http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6679422.  FWIW, the
> trivial fix is in jdk7:
> 
> 	http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/hotspot/rev/092ea87cc974

In the icedtea-signed-types.patch (part of the PPC work for zero and
cacao from Gary and Christian [1]) the fix is to cast it to (in_addr_t),
which seems slightly cleaner to me since you already have that as
typedef.

Cheers,

Mark

[1]
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2007-November/000562.html