RFC: Backport fix for Sun Bug 6539464 (Math.log() produces inconsistent results)

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/12 Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com>:
> Omair Majid wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an issue in HS14 on x86_64 where calls to Math.log() can return
>> different values for the same input value. This patch backports the fix
>> [1] from OpenJDK7 (b56) to IcedTea6
>>
>> Sun's bug entry:
>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6539464
>> Red Hat's bugzilla entry:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500077
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>> 2009-05-11  Omair Majid  <omajid at redhat.com>
>>
>>     * patches/hotspot/default/icedtea-6539464.patch: New file. Backport
>>       fix for Sun Bug 6539464 from OpenJDK7
>>     * Makefile.am (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Apply the above.
>>     * HACKING: Document the above.
>
> Well caught!  Please push this upstream straight away.  I imagine it'll be
> approved immediately.
>
> Andrew.
>

Except there's still no upstream hs14 to push to...
-- 
Andrew :-)

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