While building latest 32bits version of OpenJDK 1.7 on SnowLeopard in 32bits mode :
rm -f arguments.o g++ -D_ALLBSD_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DIA32 -DPRODUCT -I. -I../generated/adfiles -I../generated/jvmtifiles -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/asm -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/c1 -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/ci -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/classfile -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/code -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/compiler -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/concurrentMarkSweep -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1 -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parallelScavenge -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/parNew -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/shared -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/gc_interface -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/interpreter -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/libadt -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/oops -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/opto -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/prims -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/services -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/shark -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/utilities -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/cpu/x86/vm -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os/bsd/vm -I/Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/os_cpu/bsd_x86/vm -I../generated -DHOTSPOT_RELEASE_VERSION="\"20.0-b03\"" -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_TARGET="\"product\"" -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_USER="\"henri\"" -DHOTSPOT_LIB_ARCH=\"i386\" -DJRE_RELEASE_VERSION="\"1.7.0-internal-henri_2010_12_12_10_06-b00\"" -DHOTSPOT_VM_DISTRO="\"OpenJDK\"" -DCOMPILER2 -DCOMPILER1 -fPIC -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -pthread -fcheck-new -m32 -march=i586 -mstackrealign -pipe -O3 -fno-strict-aliasing -DVM_LITTLE_ENDIAN -Werror -Wpointer-arith -Wconversion -Wsign-compare -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -D_DARWIN_C_SOURCE -c -o arguments.o /Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors /Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp: In static member function 'static void Arguments::set_aggressive_opts_flags()': /Users/henri/Documents/openjdk-osx-build-read-only/bsd-port/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp:1583: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'intx' make[6]: *** [arguments.o] Error 1 make[6]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[5]: *** [the_vm] Error 2 make[4]: *** [product] Error 2 make[3]: *** [generic_build2] Error 2 make[2]: *** [product] Error 2 make[1]: *** [hotspot-build] Error 2 Offending line is : sprintf(buffer, "java.lang.Integer.IntegerCache.high=" INTX_FORMAT, AutoBoxCacheMax); I didn't had this error on building 64bits version of VM on the same machine.