building the zero port on anything else than powerpc?

[Gary Benson]

Christian Thalinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:41 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.6.0-internal). Please
> > file a bug at the Java Developer Connection
> > (http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport)  after checking the Bug Parade
> > for duplicates. Include your program and the following diagnostic in
> > your report.  Thank you.
> > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: disparate values
> 
> I know that one very well from different architectures, e.g. Alpha.
> Patching the MIN/MAX values does not fix this bug, because the
> represented floating point values keep the same, but just helps ECJ
> to actually being able to compile the source files.
> 
> Getting this exception normally means there is somewhere a bug in
> the floating point code, as these values are corner cases.  But
> sometimes, as in my Alpha situation, the bug is not in the VM but
> in the Linux kernel and I can't fix it :-(

I fixed this failure on ia64 (thanks doko!) but if anyone sees a
similar failure with zero on some other arch then please let me know.

Cheers,
Gary

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