Hello, Noticed in and taken from GCC sources, but present in the current head of the classpath tree (0.99-pre) too. This should be obvious -- the description of the atan() method incorrectly refers to "arcsin" rather than "arctan". Fixed thus.
2009-12-11 Maciej W. Rozycki <ma...@linux-mips.org> * java/lang/StrictMath.java (atan): Correct description. Please apply, Maciej classpath-0.98-20091211-atan.patch Index: java/lang/StrictMath.java =================================================================== --- java/lang/StrictMath.java (revision 155148) +++ java/lang/StrictMath.java (working copy) @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ public final strictfp class StrictMath } /** - * The trigonometric function <em>arcsin</em>. The range of angles returned + * The trigonometric function <em>arctan</em>. The range of angles returned * is -pi/2 to pi/2 radians (-90 to 90 degrees). If the argument is NaN, the * result is NaN; and the arctangent of 0 retains its sign. *