On Fri, 27 May 2022 22:59:47 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <d...@openjdk.java.net> wrote:
>> BigDecimal(String) currently fails to accept some strings produced by >> BigDecimal.toString(). This PR removes this limitation. > > Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > 8233760: Result of BigDecimal.toString throws overflow exception on new > BigDecimal(str) Hello, here's an explanation of the changes in `BigDecimal`. Rather than keeping track of a local `int scl` (scale) and a local `long exp` (exponent), the change only keeps track of a `long scl`, adapting it accordingly. It checks the range of `scl` before initializing the fields. This makes for a simpler code. In addition, I couldn't resist changing C-style arrays to Java style over the whole class. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8905
