Request for approval: Backport fix for Bug 6539464 to HS14

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/5/13 Tom Rodriguez <Thomas.Rodriguez at sun.com>:
> I'm not sure what you're requesting here.  I don't think this can make it
> into the current hs14 which is going out in 6u14.  I think that's pretty
> much in the can.  It could certainly be backported in a later release and
> there's no reason it couldn't get into 6 open once that's updated to hs14.
>  It should backport cleanly without problem.
>
> tom
>
> On May 12, 2009, at 7:50 AM, Omair Majid wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The current Hotspot 14 stable has an issue where successive calls to
>> Math.log() produce inconsistent results. The original bug is at
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6539464.
>>
>> A fix was committed to openjdk7
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-comp/hotspot/rev/819880572f09. Is it
>> OK to backport this fix to hotspot 14?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Omair
>
>

As this is an OpenJDK mailing list, it seems clear (at least to me)
that the intention was to make this available in OpenJDK, not a
proprietary Sun build.  I believe a hs14 forest has been proposed and
should be making an appearance on hg.openjdk.java.net at some point...
(http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2009-May/001623.html).
 The backport Omair mentions has already been completed and the patch
applied locally in IcedTea.  The intention behind this mail was to
make sure the patch also gets applied upstream.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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