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[Alessandro Polverini <alex@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Package: openjdk-6-jre
Severity: important

Current version of openjdk has a bug that causes the execution of incorrect code when dealing with Integer.MAX_VALUE.

The problem is easily reproduceable with the following code:

public class HotSpotError {
  static public void main(String[] args) {
  int i1 = 0;
  int i2 = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
  while (i1 >= 0) {
    i1++;
    if (i1 > i2) {
      System.out.println("E R R O R: " + i1);
      return;
      }
    }
  }
}

An example of the output is this:
E R R O R: 497892

The number of the iteration at which the bug exhibits depends on the optimisation parameters used and the release of the JDK.