Fw: core-libs-dev Digest, Vol 131, Issue 19

2018-03-04 Thread A Z
To who it may concern, 'There was a JSR to add a new mode' Citation about problems with Java floating point: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf I suppose I would be asking for that change on float and double, that being the case, as well as an extra mathematics class

Re: RFR 8198970: jnu_util.c compilation error on Solaris

2018-03-04 Thread Kim Barrett
> On Mar 2, 2018, at 10:36 PM, David Holmes wrote: > > On 3/03/2018 8:56 AM, Roger Riggs wrote: >> Please review a correction to the jni_util.c native code that does not >> compile on Solaris. >> Declarations must precede assignments. > > Wow! I didn't think Solaris

Re: GetPrimitiveArrayCritical vs GetByteArrayRegion: 140x slow-down using -Xcheck:jni and java.util.zip.DeflaterOutputStream

2018-03-04 Thread David Holmes
Hi Ian, Do you run with -Xcheck:jni in production mode because you load unknown native code libraries? It's mainly intended as a diagnostic option to turn on if you encounter a possible JNI problem. I'll leave the debate on your actual patch proposal to others more familiar with the

Re: RFR 8198931: remove java.xml.bind module dependency for com/sun/jndi tests

2018-03-04 Thread Chris Yin
Thank you, Lance Regards, Chris > On 5 Mar 2018, at 9:38 AM, Lance Andersen wrote: > > +1 > > -- > > > Lance Andersen| > Principal Member of

Re: RFR 8198931: remove java.xml.bind module dependency for com/sun/jndi tests

2018-03-04 Thread Lance Andersen
+1 -- Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering 1 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 lance.ander...@oracle.com Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2018, at 8:26 PM, Chris Yin wrote: > > Please review the minor changes to

RFR 8198931: remove java.xml.bind module dependency for com/sun/jndi tests

2018-03-04 Thread Chris Yin
Please review the minor changes to remove java.xml.bind module dependency for com/sun/jndi tests, thanks bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8198931 webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~xiaofeya/8198931/webrev.00/

Re: core-libs-dev Digest, Vol 131, Issue 19

2018-03-04 Thread Jonathan Bluett-Duncan
Okay. Do you have any citations that we can refer to to confirm for ourselves that this is indeed a recognised need? Cheers, Jonathan On 4 March 2018 at 05:24, A Z wrote: > To who it may concern, > > > 'There was a JSR to add a new mode' > > > then I suppose I would