Re: Possible bug in JDK1.1.6 JIT

William H. Geiger III (whgiii@invweb.net)
Sat, 23 May 1998 20:45:01 -0500

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In <01bd86a2$242e9b20$8c2b17cb@rc.list.to>, on 05/24/98
   at 09:25 AM, "Grant Sparks" <grant@sparks.to> said:

>Markus Hahn has found that his pure java implementation of Blowfish
>causes the Just In Time compiler in the new JDK1.1.6 to crash. It runs
>fine with -nojit

>I don't think that he is doing anything out of the ordinary. This may
>have implications for other math intensive applications written in Java.

>Bug documentation, tests and short-term fix;
>http://www-hze.rz.fht-esslingen.de/~tis5maha/jdk116JITbug.html

>Original Blowfish for Java 1.3 (this still triggers the bug) can be
>downloaded from ;
>http://www-hze.rz.fht-esslingen.de/~tis5maha/software.html#JBLOWFISH

The code works just fine with the Java 1.1.6 JIT running on OS/2.

Of course IBM wrote that so it's no suprise that it works. :))

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