RFR (S): Failure after windows compiler upgrade

[Christian Thalinger]

Looks good.  Is this one particular file we are seeing the problem in or is it all over the place?

> On Apr 27, 2015, at 7:10 AM, Nils Eliasson <nils.eliasson at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Please review this patch.
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> The bug is caused by the instruction sequence generated by the visual studio compiler when casting a long to a float.
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> Visual Studio 2013 has a new behavior where it defaults to generating code targeting SSE2 (and avoids x87). Compiling for a 64-bit target gives the same result as before. Compiling for 32bit VS2013 generates a call to _ltod3 (long2double) and then uses a sse2 instruction to cast it to a float. Casting the long to a double and then to a float gives a different result than casting directly to a float. This is true on all tested configurations. It is unclear why they just didn't use a MOVQ to load the long to an XMM register and then use the same cvtsi2ss as in the other configurations.
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> To fix this we need to add the /arch:IA32 flag to all i586 windows builds. It looks like the IA32 option is ignored on 64-bit builds but we shouldn't count on that. A drawback is that this option also prevents any usage of SSE on the i586 platform.
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> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077590
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~neliasso/8077590/webrev.03/
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> Regards
> Nils
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