Trunk miscompiles libjava

[Roland.Hautz]

Hello,

I wish I'd read this earlier. So I spent some hours rediscovering it and
submitting PR java/6729.

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Boehm, Hans wrote:

> On Linux/IA64, and probably other platforms, the trunk gcc miscompiles the
>isWhiteSpace() method in libjava/java/lang/Character.  Apparently the
>bit-wise & in a return is the problem.  This is a regression from
>3.1.  It fails with the current CVS and failed with the one from a few
>days ago.



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