This patch concerns cleaning up some ugly internal deprecations. Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035279 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8035279/webrev.00/
All JTREG BigInteger tests pass, and the serialized form has been unaltered as verified by bidirectional read-write testing between Java 7 and this version. I would appreciate scrutiny of the arithmetic to make sure that I've made no silly errors. Also I would be interested in opinions as to whether the "volatile" keyword should in fact be used for the affected instance variables. Thank you for your comments. Brian
