JDK 12 RFR of JDK-8212880: Cannot access ftp: site for fdlibm.tar

[Jonathan Gibbons]

+1

-- Jon


On 10/24/2018 01:11 PM, joe darcy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Seems the ftp option for the fdlibm sources has gone away; the URL 
> reference in the JDK sources in StrictMath should be updated to a live 
> page:
>
>         JDK-8212880: Cannot access ftp: site for fdlibm.tar
>
> Patch:
>
> diff -r 211998500d39 
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StrictMath.java
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StrictMath.java    Thu Aug 
> 16 19:49:25 2018 -0400
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/StrictMath.java    Wed Oct 
> 24 13:08:41 2018 -0700
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
>   * algorithms are available from the well-known network library
>   * {@code netlib} as the package "Freely Distributable Math
>   * Library," <a
> - * href="ftp://ftp.netlib.org/fdlibm.tar">{@code fdlibm}</a>. These
> + * href="https://www.netlib.org/fdlibm/">{@code fdlibm}</a>. These
>   * algorithms, which are written in the C programming language, are
>   * then to be understood as executed with all floating-point
>   * operations following the rules of Java floating-point arithmetic.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe
>