On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Craig L Russell wrote:
Hi Ray,
This sounds like a bug in the compiler. Have you raised an issue
with the JDK folks?
Craig
It had not occurred to me to look at this as a bug in the 1.5 javac.
I think I will file that with Sun. I was just thinking that the 1.4.2
compiler was, you know, done.
- ray
On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:38 AM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
I have been e-mailing with Andrew McIntyre about getting some
things done in the build of Derby on Mac OS X.
We (at Apple) are seeing something and I am wondering how you all
have dealt with this issue. At one time, we thought we could use
Java 1.5 and achieve backwards compatibility with 1.4. We have
seen an issue with BigDecimal and I wonder if this has impacted
you all, or how you have dealt with it.
The problem is this. If one used a method in 1.4,
java.math.BigDecimal(int), the javac compiler would map this for
you, under the covers, to java.math.BigDecimal(double).
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