The original description of this bug does not seem to match the synopsis.  The following program does:

public class zero {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
	System.out.println(1/0);
    }
}

Running the above yields:


zero.java:3: Arithmetic exception.
        System.out.println(1/0);
                            ^
1 error

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Here is the original description for this bug, which more properly is described by bugid 4019304:

class UofO {
    private float value = 10;
    private static final float one_sixth_inch = (float)((1/6)*0.0254);

    public float getm() { return value; }

    public float this_compiles() {
	float val = one_sixth_inch;
	return getm() / val; 
    }
    public float this_doesnt_compile() {
	return (getm() / one_sixth_inch);
    }
}