On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:30:32 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <d...@openjdk.java.net> 
wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> here's a PR for a patch submitted on March 2020 
>> [1](https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/4511638/webrev.04/) when Mercurial was 
>> a thing.
>> 
>> The patch has been edited to adhere to OpenJDK code conventions about 
>> multi-line (block) comments. Nothing in the code proper has changed, except 
>> for the addition of redundant but clarifying parentheses in some expressions.
>> 
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Raffaello
>
> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   4511638: Double.toString(double) sometimes produces incorrect results

Hi Guy,

> I have now read through the Paxson paper. Does this refer to the values 
> listed in his Tables 3 and 4, or to other values instead or in addition?

Right.

>> Shortening my 27 pages writing and re-formating it to meet a journal 
>> standards for publication would require investing yet another substantial 
>> amount of time. I'm not sure I'm prepared for that, given that I've no 
>> personal interest in a journal publication: I'm not an academic, I'm not 
>> pursuing a career...
>> But I promise I'll think about reconsidering my position on this ;-)
> 
> Please do think about reconsidering.

OK, thanks for the useful suggestions.


Greetings
Raffaello

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3402

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