[REFRESH] JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8035279: Clean up internal deprecations in BigInteger

[Paul Sandoz]

On Feb 26, 2014, at 8:35 PM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>   private int firstNonzeroIntNum() {
>>       int fn = firstNonzeroIntNumPlusTwo - 2;
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> I made all suggested changes except the third line below. Why do we test for equality with -3? If the primitive int default value of zero is used, for firstNonzeroIntNumPlusTwo, as it is, then we should still test whether fn equals -2, n'est-ce pas?
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Oops, Oui. You can probably tell i was experimenting with PlusThree to take into account a 0 magnitude.

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>> We can revisit and clean things up if/when the JMM is updated.
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> Is there an issue for JMM update to which a comment with a link to this thread could be added?
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No, there are no issues yet, the discussions are still in flux and nothing concrete has been decided yet. Probably the best way to track as a reminder is to add a new issue for BigInteger to revisit stable fields (JMM) and Unsafe use (Enhanced Volatiles).

Paul.