Reviewer needed: 6282196 There should be Math.mod(number, modulo) methods

[Roger Riggs]

Hi,

I've corrected a number of issues raised with javadoc in java.lang.Math
and java.lang.StrictMath.  The updated webrev is:
  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/6282196.2/

Please review.

Thanks, Roger


On 03/05/2012 08:38 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> CR 6282196 There should be Math.mod(number, modulo) methods
>   http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6282196
>
> Requests that floor and modulus methods be provided for primitive types.
> Floor division is pretty straight-forward, rounding toward minus 
> infinity.
> For modulus of int and long, the sign and range follow  the exiting 
> floor method
> in java.util.Math and satisfy the relation that mod(x, y) = (x - 
> floorDiv(x, y) * y).
>