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

Oracle has released a hot fix which can be found here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/fpupdater-tool-readme-305936.html

The hotfix will work for java 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6.