[PING] [9] RFR of 5100935: No way to access the 64-bit integer multiplication of 64-bit CPUs efficiently

Brian Burkhalter brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Thu May 19 03:16:14 UTC 2016


Hi Joe,

On May 18, 2016, at 5:37 PM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> Sorry for the belated review.

No worries.

> For multiplyFull, currently the wording is
> 
> 833      * Returns the product of the arguments allowing overflowed values within
> 834      * the range of {@code long}.
> 
> I think it would work about as something like "Returns the exact mathematical product of the arguments."
> 
> Otherwise, looks okay.

I shall update it to that. I suppose no need to provide another webrev?

Thanks,

Brian


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