The Merlin Beta Refresh 64-bit Solaris Sparc nightly build failed.

I can reproduce the failure like this, using the latest JDK (or even
one from a couple of weeks ago) plus the nightly HotSpot binary:

  % cat /tmp/T2.java
  public interface T2 { long n = 10L; }

  % bin/javac -J-d64 /tmp/T2.java
  /tmp/T2.java:1: integer number too large: 10
  public interface T2 { long n = 10L; }
^
  1 error

The problem disappears when I use the HotSpot binary from Monday's
promotion. It also disappears when I change the 10 to a 9. I don't
know if the problem exists on 32-bit Solaris Sparc. It doesn't
happen on other platforms.


scott.seligman@Eng 2001-05-19
It looks like this problem is only on 64-bit.