JDK 11 RFR of JDK-8202563: BigInteger/BigDecimal not immune to overflow, contrary to spec

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Joe,

On May 8, 2018, at 9:19 AM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 5/7/2018 10:45 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> […]
>> 
>> The unsigned
>>   * right shift operator ({@code >>>}) is omitted, as this operation only makes sense with a fixed word size.
> 
> How about
> 
> The unsigned right shift operator ({@code >>>}) is omitted since this operation only makes sense for a fixed sized word and not for a representation conceptually having an infinite number of leading virtual sign bit

This looks fine to me (as does the rest).

Brian