# HG changeset patch
# User gromero
# Date 1553114629 14400
#      Wed Mar 20 16:43:49 2019 -0400
# Node ID 56cc904f7ccc62847efd32054fc7a1318290633d
# Parent  564043cbe13841c7605e52533f2bf743a59ea35b
8221175: Fix bad function case for controlled JVM crash on PPC64 big-endian
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diff --git a/src/hotspot/share/utilities/vmError.cpp b/src/hotspot/share/utilities/vmError.cpp
--- a/src/hotspot/share/utilities/vmError.cpp
+++ b/src/hotspot/share/utilities/vmError.cpp
@@ -1725,7 +1725,14 @@
   const char* const eol = os::line_separator();
   const char* const msg = "this message should be truncated during formatting";
   char * const dataPtr = NULL;  // bad data pointer
-  const void (*funcPtr)(void) = (const void(*)()) 0xF;  // bad function pointer
+  const void (*funcPtr)(void);  // bad function pointer
+
+#if defined(PPC64) && !defined(ABI_ELFv2)
+  unsigned long function_descriptor[] = { 0xF /* function pointer */, 0x0, 0x0 };
+  funcPtr = (const void(*)()) &function_descriptor;
+#else
+  funcPtr = (const void(*)()) 0xF;
+#endif
 
   // Keep this in sync with test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/ErrorHandling/ErrorHandler.java
   // which tests cases 1 thru 13.