JDK 8 RFR 8029514: java/math/BigInteger/BigIntegerTest.java failing since thresholds adjusted in 8022181

[Joe Darcy]

On 12/04/2013 06:50 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Alan Eliasen wrote:
>
>>    Hmmm... it looks like that patch is correct and necessary if
>> getLower() is receiving negative numbers.  I'm not quite sure what
>> happened there.  My vague recollection was that at one point the
>> arguments to Karatsuba multiply were conditioned to always be positive
>> in the multiply() dispatching function, but that's apparently not the
>> case in the current code.
> Thanks for the comments. There is no guarantee that the factors will not be negative. The main thing is that it got caught before the release of 8.
>
>

Brian,

As a double-check, can you run the now failing regression test against 
the earlier versions of java.math.* between when Karatsuba and friends 
went in and the current version of the code?

Thanks,

-Joe