RFR (S): 8050114: Expose Integer/Long formatUnsigned methods internally

[Claes Redestad]

Hi,

  Mike Duigou suggested some simplifications to the formatUnsigned 
methods. Shows a slight speed-upon some micros as well:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8050114/webrev.2/

/Claes

On 2014-07-13 00:26, Claes Redestad wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  please review this patch to expose formatUnsignedInt/-Long through 
> JavaLangAccess.
>
>  webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~redestad/8050114/webrev.1/
>  bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8050114
>
>  The behavior of the methods have been adjusted to be zero-padding in 
> case the number formatted is shorter than the specified length, since 
> that simplifies use cases for which this utility is exposed 
> internally, e.g., JDK-8006627 
> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8006627>. Microbenchmarks 
> show that this does not adversely affect performance of current uses 
> through toHexString, toOctalString etc.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>  /Claes