[PATCH] Sunbug 7131192: Optimize BigInteger.doubleValue(), floatValue()

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:

>> Sweet.  Just be aware that the floatValue() optimization requires Float.parseFloat to be fixed to match IEEE 754 behavior, as you're apparently doing with Double.parseDouble, to pass tests.
> 
> Actually I missed that until yesterday but found it out myself. I do not think however that the patch for 7131192 necessarily has to precede the fix for 7192954, as long as the latter gets into the same release.

Oops, I had that reversed: I don't know that the patch for 7192954 has to precede that for 7131192 if the latter is deemed correct.

B.