On Tue, 31 May 2022 17:07:06 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 src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/math/DoubleToDecimal.java line 72: > 70: static final int E_MAX = 309; > 71: > 72: /* Threshold to detect tiny values, as in section 8.2.1 of [1] */ Comments like this one pointing to specific places in the Schubfach paper are very helpful in understanding the constants and the various steps in the algorithm. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3402
