On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2014 18:13, Joe Darcy wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Back in JDK 5, the sun.misc.FpUtils class was added to provide low-level >> floating-point manipulations methods needed to write tests of the math >> library. Over time, those low-level functions have generally been added to >> the standard Java library and most of the methods in FpUtils have thus been >> deprecated. >> >> Therefore, I think the start of JDK 9 is a good time to actually remove >> FpUtils from the platform; please review my change which does this: >> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8033416.0/ >> >> The implementation of the ilogb and isUnordered methods was moved into the >> "Tests" helper class in the math library test directory. >> >> (At the recommendation of Alan in the bug report, I verified that the fx jar >> files do not reference the FpUtils class.) > I may have mixed it up with FloatConsts or DouleConsts but I'm pretty sure > there was a dependency at one point. The main thing is that we've checked and > all is okay. > grepcode shows no usages, which is a good sign :-) Paul.
