Encountered "Fix overflow on field offsets" when building Spark on ARM64

 I am working on testing Spark (1.3.1) on the ARM64 . When building using

  sbt/sbt assembly

the following error occurs

[warn] ^
#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# Internal Error (assembler_aarch64.hpp:226), pid=1869, tid=547356799472
# guarantee(chk == -1 || chk == 0) failed: Field too big for insn
#
# JRE version: OpenJDK Runtime Environment (7.0_75-b13) (build 1.7.0_75-b13)
# Java VM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (24.80-b07 mixed mode linux-aarch64 compressed oops)
# Derivative: IcedTea 2.5.4
# Distribution: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, package 7u75-2.5.4-1~trusty1
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:
# /home/stephen/spark-1.3.1/hs_err_pid1869.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please include
# instructions on how to reproduce the bug and visit:
# http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla
#

Now googling the specific error we came to the following issue:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/aarch64-port-dev/2014-March/000931.html