Patched bytecode fails verification on IBM J9 VM for AIX

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Failure:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: JVMVRFY012 stack shape inconsistent; class=java/text/DigitList, method=shouldRoundUp(IZZ)Z, pc=19
        at java.text.DecimalFormat.<init>(DecimalFormat.java:3769)
        at sun.util.locale.provider.NumberFormatProviderImpl.getInstance(NumberFormatProviderImpl.java:192)
        at sun.util.locale.provider.NumberFormatProviderImpl.getNumberInstance(NumberFormatProviderImpl.java:161)
        at java.text.NumberFormat.getInstance(NumberFormat.java:886)
        at java.text.NumberFormat.getInstance(NumberFormat.java:872)
        at java.text.NumberFormat.getInstance(NumberFormat.java:453)
        at com.pros.java.text.SelfTest.stackoverflow24426438(SelfTest.java:181)
        at com.pros.java.text.SelfTest.run(SelfTest.java:86)
        at com.pros.java.text.DigitListPatch.main(DigitListPatch.java:107)

Environment:

java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pap6480-20150129_02)
IBM J9 VM (build 2.8, JRE 1.8.0 AIX ppc64-64 Compressed References 20150116_231420 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
J9VM - R28_Java8_GA_20150116_2030_B231420
JIT  - tr.r14.java_20150109_82886.02
GC   - R28_Java8_GA_20150116_2030_B231420_CMPRSS
J9CL - 20150116_231420)
JCL - 20150123_01 based on Oracle jdk8u31-b12

Reproduced on release version 1.5 of the patch. All released versions to date are likely affected.