diff -r 9200402b42d5 -r 71a71b0bc844 src/cpu/ppc/vm/ppc.ad
--- a/src/cpu/ppc/vm/ppc.ad	Thu Feb 20 14:44:33 2014 +0100
+++ b/src/cpu/ppc/vm/ppc.ad	Thu Mar 20 11:03:06 2014 +0100
@@ -8777,6 +8777,7 @@
 // Single-precision sqrt.
 instruct sqrtF_reg(regF dst, regF src) %{
   match(Set dst (ConvD2F (SqrtD (ConvF2D src))));
+  predicate(VM_Version::has_fsqrts());
   ins_cost(DEFAULT_COST);
 
   format %{ "FSQRTS  $dst, $src" %}
@@ -11572,8 +11573,7 @@
   // effect no longer needs to be mentioned, since r0 is not contained
   // in a reg_class.
 
-  format %{ "LD      R12, addr of polling page\n\t"
-            "LD      R0, #0, R12 \t// Safepoint poll for GC" %}
+  format %{ "LD      R0, #0, R12 \t// Safepoint poll for GC" %}
   ins_encode( enc_poll(0x0, poll) );
   ins_pipe(pipe_class_default);
 %}