While investigating floating point execption in 4025466 and dup 1264851 I found that the JIT gets around this by throwing a Arithmetic / zero exception. The Java spec states that no exception should be throw. The tests which core in the interpreted version fail using the jit.

From the spec.

There is one special case that does not satisfy this rule: if the dividend
is the negative integer of largest possible magnitude for its type, and the
divisor is -1, then integer overflow occurs and the result is equal to the
dividend. Despite the overflow, no exception is thrown in this case.

It works this way for solaris sparc but not solaris intel.

vm/instr/irem/irem001/irem00101/irem00101.html fails because of this bug.

// class to test div by -1 on x86
final class DivTest
{
        int i = 0x80000000;
int j = -1;

        public DivTest()
        {
                System.out.println("i / j");
                System.out.println(i / j);
        }
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
                new DivTest();
        }
}

java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
        at divneg.main(Compiled Code)