Code review request for 6253144: Long narrowing conversion should describe the algorithm used and implied "risks"

[David Holmes]

Hi Joe,

Joe Darcy said the following on 06/18/11 11:38:
> Please review this (somewhat tedious) change to make the behavior of the 
> Number subtypes in the JDK more explicit:
> 
>    6253144: Long narrowing conversion should describe the algorithm used 
> and implied "risks"
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/6253144.0/
> 
> David, how are changes to AtomicInteger and AtomicLong managed?

Normally they would go into Doug Lea's CVS for jsr166, we (Chris 
Hegarty) would pull them over and then push to OpenJDK. It can work the 
other way but the sync's can get messier.

David

> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe