Hello Dima,

Yes that would be helpful and appreciated. There is another patch to the same 
files that I will be looking into, but the changes are disjoint so there should 
not be a significant merge issue.

Thanks,

Brian

On Feb 21, 2013, at 7:27 PM, Dmitry Nadezhin wrote:

> Do you want that I prepare this FloatingDecimal/FormattedFloatingDecimal 
> patch ?
> 
>  -Dima
> 
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Brian Burkhalter
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am withdrawing this patch for the time being as properly the changes 
>> should also go into the fork sun.misc.FormattedFloatingDecimal. I'll post an 
>> updated patch once it is available.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> On Feb 14, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>> 
>>> The patch below is as submitted to OpenJDK bugzilla but with enhanced 
>>> comments. It pertains to the correction loop in the doubleValue() method of 
>>> FloatingDecimal. The situation appears to arise when the candidate value is 
>>> less than 2*Double.MIN_NORMAL as for such values the ULP is less than 
>>> 2*Double.MIN_VALUE so that the intermediate result 0.5*ULP is less than 
>>> Double.MIN_VALUE which rounds to zero per FP-strict and the correction is 
>>> therefore zero. Thus the candidate value is unchanged. The fix is to add 
>>> the ULP to twice the candidate value, obtain the intermediate result, and 
>>> then halve it to obtain the adjusted candidate.
>>> 
>>> I am relatively new to IEEE-754 and this area of the code so any comments 
>>> would be appreciated.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Brian
>>> 
>>> diff -r 1405ad6afb1e -r 36482ed9bb7e 
>>> src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatingDecimal.java
>>> --- a/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatingDecimal.java Thu Feb 14 11:09:07 
>>> 2013 -0800
>>> +++ b/src/share/classes/sun/misc/FloatingDecimal.java Thu Feb 14 16:47:53 
>>> 2013 -0800
>> 

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