RFR: 8295159: DSO created with -ffast-math breaks Java floating-point arithmetic [v9]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:29:11 GMT, Andrew Haley <aph at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> A bug in GCC causes shared libraries linked with -ffast-math to disable denormal arithmetic. This breaks Java's floating-point semantics.
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>> The bug is https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55522
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>> One solution is to save and restore the floating-point control word around System.loadLibrary(). This isn't perfect, because some shared library might load another shared library at runtime, but it's a lot better than what we do now. 
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>> However, this fix is not complete. `dlopen()` is called from many places in the JDK. I guess the best thing to do is find and wrap them all. I'd like to hear people's opinions.
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> Andrew Haley has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add TestDenormalDouble.java

The latest build changes look trivially good.

(If you decide to make other changes to the build system, please await a re-review of build changes before pushing)

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Marked as reviewed by ihse (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10661#pullrequestreview-1673840086