RFC 6910473: BigInteger negative bit length, value range, and future prospects

[Alan Bateman]

On 15/10/2013 01:27, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> Ping!
>
> This proposal could use more comments, not to mention review(s).
>
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-September/021264.html
>
Just to follow up on Paul's observation that the test runs with -Xmx8g. 
I assume this isn't going to work on 32-bit systems, also I'm sure it 
will cause problems in other environments too, esp. when running the 
tests concurrently with a pool of VMs running the tests. Paul's 
suggestion to have the test just pass if there is insufficient heap is 
one choice, another might be to test on a smaller range when there isn't 
enough memory. Another potential approach is to have it launch a new VM 
with -Xmx8g once you establish that the VM is 64-bit and that there is 
sufficient memory available.

-Alan