JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8033416: Remove sun.misc.FpUtils

[Brian Burkhalter]

+1 from a (lower case) reviewer. ;-)

Brian

On Feb 1, 2014, at 10:13 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Back in JDK 5, the sun.misc.FpUtils class was added to provide low-level floating-point manipulations methods needed to write tests of the math library. Over time, those low-level functions have generally been added to the standard Java library and most of the methods in FpUtils have thus been deprecated.
> 
> Therefore, I think the start of JDK 9 is a good time to actually remove FpUtils from the platform; please review my change which does this:
> 
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8033416.0/
> 
> The implementation of the ilogb and isUnordered methods was moved into the "Tests" helper class in the math library test directory.
> 
> (At the recommendation of Alan in the bug report, I verified that the fx jar files do not reference the FpUtils class.)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe