[PATCH] java.math/4428022 Float/Double.toString trailing zeros

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hi Keith.

Thanks for your patch with test.  I'll try to look into incorporating 
this soon (I'm busy with OpenJDK 6).

-Joe


Keith Seitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I believe the attached patch fixes the trailing zero problem mentioned
> in several bugs (in addition to $SUBJECT), including 4511638, 6575880,
> and 4191279.
>
> The problem arises because sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.getChars and 
> sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.dtoa disagree about when numbers are 
> represented in E-form and when they are not. As a result, dtoa stuffs 
> one too many numbers (a '0' in this case) into digits[], and getChars 
> blindly returns them to FloatingDecimal.toJavaFormatString.
>
> I have also attached a jtreg test for this, based on various testcases 
> given in several bug requests.
>
> Keith