Review: JDK 8 CR for Support Integer overflow updated (original) (raw)

Roger Riggs Roger.Riggs at oracle.com
Mon Feb 13 21:32:11 UTC 2012

Thanks for the raising the question on the blog and the comments.

I see support based only on general principles and not from use cases where the function would be essential. At this point, we're not trying to provide a complete set of exact arithmetic functions but to cover the cases where developers can benefit from not having to deal with the tricky parts themselves.

On 02/13/2012 12:52 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

On 11 February 2012 17:31, Roger Riggs<Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

Updated the webrev for CR6708398: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/6708398.2 - Added a paragraph to the class javadoc for Math and StrictMath to introduce the exact arithmetic methods and their uses. - Editorial correction to first sentence of each method to consistent use "Returns". - Added Tests for the StrictMath methods (they are the same tests as for Math) In case you didn't see it, the question as to what to include was asked here http://blog.joda.org/2012/02/jdk-helper-math-methods.html The answers were inconclusive, however I would argue that negate has enough supporters to justify inclusion. Stephen

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