Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8033416: Remove sun.misc.FpUtils

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Sandoz
On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:23 PM, Alan Bateman alan.bate...@oracle.com wrote: On 01/02/2014 18:13, Joe Darcy wrote: Hello, Back in JDK 5, the sun.misc.FpUtils class was added to provide low-level floating-point manipulations methods needed to write tests of the math library. Over time, those

Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8033416: Remove sun.misc.FpUtils

2014-02-03 Thread Brian Burkhalter
+1 from a (lower case) reviewer. ;-) Brian On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Joe Darcy wrote: Hello, Back in JDK 5, the sun.misc.FpUtils class was added to provide low-level floating-point manipulations methods needed to write tests of the math library. Over time, those low-level functions

Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8033416: Remove sun.misc.FpUtils

2014-02-03 Thread Joe Darcy
Hi Alan, I was on the fence about whether or not to include the bug id in the test; after you comment, I've removed it in the version that was pushed. Thanks for the review, -Joe On 02/01/2014 01:23 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 01/02/2014 18:13, Joe Darcy wrote: Hello, Back in JDK 5, the

JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8033416: Remove sun.misc.FpUtils

2014-02-01 Thread Joe Darcy
Hello, Back in JDK 5, the sun.misc.FpUtils class was added to provide low-level floating-point manipulations methods needed to write tests of the math library. Over time, those low-level functions have generally been added to the standard Java library and most of the methods in FpUtils have

Re: JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8033416: Remove sun.misc.FpUtils

2014-02-01 Thread Alan Bateman
On 01/02/2014 18:13, Joe Darcy wrote: Hello, Back in JDK 5, the sun.misc.FpUtils class was added to provide low-level floating-point manipulations methods needed to write tests of the math library. Over time, those low-level functions have generally been added to the standard Java library