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For following test, jitc generates wrnog results -

sujay:test_dir5$ m t2.java
public class t2 {

public static void main(String argv[]) {
        String str_val = new String("-Inf");
        float floatDest = Float.valueOf( str_val ).floatValue();
            
        isit("string->float conversion", floatDest,-1.0f/0.0f);
        System.out.println( floatDest );
}

public static void
    isit( String testexpression, float actual, float expected )
    {
        if ( actual == expected ){
            System.out.print( "PAssed: " );
        } else {
            System.out.print( "Failure: " );
            System.out.print( testexpression );
            System.out.print( " yields " );
            System.out.println( actual );
            System.out.print( " expected " );
            System.out.println( expected );
        }
    }

}

sujay:test_dir5$ java -Djava.compiler=JIT t2
Failure: string->float conversion yields 0
         expected -Inf
0
sujay:test_dir5$ java t2
PAssed: -Inf
sujay:test_dir5$