RFR 7192954+4396272: Fix Float.parseFloat to round correctly and preserve monotonicity

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Martin,

On Jun 20, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:

> This change Looks Good To Me.

Cool - thanks!

> It would be good in future to cc the contributors.

Good point. It probably is best not to assume that everyone is on core-libs-dev.

> Just to show that I'm paying attention, add an extra asterisk below
> to make this a proper javadoc comment (not that it matters much).
> 
> 1048         /*
> 1049          * Takes a FloatingDecimal, which we presumably just scanned in,
> 1050          * and finds out what its value is, as a double.
> 1051          *
> 1052          * AS A SIDE EFFECT, SET roundDir TO INDICATE PREFERRED
> 1053          * ROUNDING DIRECTION in case the result is really destined
> 1054          * for a single-precision float.
> 1055          */
> 1056         @Override
> 1057         public double doubleValue() {

I'll make this change and update the webrev tomorrow.

Thanks,

Brian