Code review request for 6908131 Pure Java implementations of StrictMath.floor(double) &StrictMath.ceil(double)

[Christian Thalinger]

On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 10:16 -0800, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> > Not a review, but did you think about implementing the whole FDLIBM in
> > Java, as done here:
> >
> > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2009-August/001970.html
> >   
> 
> Yes, porting FDLIBM to Java has been an oft-delayed "nice to have" 
> project of mine.  It is not obvious from looking at my ceil/floor code, 
> but it started with the FDLIBM versions of those algorithms.  The tests 
> are new and greatly outnumber the code changes, as it typical in this 
> line of work :-)  I think getting an all-java StrictMath library would 
> be best done as a series of small batches so floor/ceil could be a start.

All in all sounds good :-)  -- Christian