Hotspot and SS12 bug 6610361 ?

[Kelly O'Hair]

Maybe there was enough change in the jdk7 sources that this problem is hidden?

-kto


David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
> Tried on two other sparc boxes, both S10u3 as it turned out, but one was 
> a JPRT (east) build machine so ....
> 
> As a sanity check I'll try doing a non-quiet JDK7 Hotspot build.
> 
> David
> 
> David Holmes - Sun Microsystems said the following on 11/11/08 07:57:
>> Hi Kelly,
>>
>> I'm using a local (BNE) mirror of east coast /java/devtools, but I 
>> checked east and west and both have the same unpatched version of CC.
>>
>> I'm running on a partially patched (maybe to u3?) S10u1:
>>
>> SunOS nebula-bne 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210
>>
>> I can try on another machine.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> Kelly O'Hair said the following on 11/11/08 04:50:
>>>
>>> Looks like this was fixed in patch 124861-04:
>>>
>>> 6610361 cg assertion in sp_softpipe.cc "arc latency not covered"
>>> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collections&max=50&language=en&queryKey5=124861&toDocument=yes 
>>>
>>> Not sure why this bug isn't visible on bugs.sun.com, doesn't seem to 
>>> be a security bug.
>>>
>>> Exactly what /java/devtools do you have, East coast?
>>> I'm surprised we haven't seen this problem too.
>>> I wonder if it depends on the specific Solaris 10 you are using.
>>> What does 'uname -a' and 'CC -V' say?
>>>
>>> (FYI: background for non Sun people, /java/devtools is a shared area 
>>> where
>>>       we place images of the Sun Studio compilers and other tools).
>>>
>>> -kto
>>>
>>> David Holmes - Sun Microsystems wrote:
>>>> I'd asked about this "locally" but now casting a wider net ...
>>>>
>>>> In trying to build JRTS (based on JDK5) with SS12, on sparc we get 
>>>> bitten by bug 6610361:
>>>>
>>>> Compiling 
>>>> /mnt/disk2/eng/dh198349/ws-bug6755041/ws/src/share/vm/interpreter/bytecodeTracer.cpp 
>>>>
>>>> cg: assertion failed in file ../src/ms_pipe/sp_softpipe.cc at line 3430
>>>> cg: Internal error: arc latency not covered
>>>> cg: 1 errors
>>>>
>>>> To workaround this I had to drop the optimization level to O2 for 
>>>> over 50 files in product and 60+ in fastdebug!
>>>>
>>>> But I don't see any such workarounds in the JDK7 build files. I 
>>>> can't believe that we were that unlucky and we hit this bug 50+ 
>>>> times where Hotspot hits it zero.
>>>>
>>>> This is the SS12 from /java/devtools  5.0 2007/05/03
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else encountered this building Hotspot?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David Holmes