Compilation hangs for a class with field double d = 2.2250738585072012e-308

Question

I have come across an interesting situation. A coworker committed some changes, which would not compile on my machine neither from the IDE (Eclipse) nor from a command line

Answer 1

This is an open bug for over 10 years. Bad Sun.

The fact that Java systems haven't been attacked and dead in masses proves that there are really very few naughty people on the earth.