[PATCH] 4511638: Double.toString(double) sometimes produces incorrect results

[Brian Burkhalter]

Hi Raffaello, et. al.

> On Apr 3, 2019, at 7:43 AM, Raffaello Giulietti <raffaello.giulietti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> in this patch there are additional white-box tests against critical package private entities in the jdk.internal.math classes. In particular the class jdk.internal.math.MathUtils is thoroughly tested.
> 
> Also, the tag @key randomness is now used along jdk.test.lib.RandomFactory.

Good.

> To run the tests
> make test TEST="jtreg:test/jdk/jdk/internal/math/ToDecimal”

As a note to anyone else running these, I configured my OpenJDK build as

bash ./configure --with-jtreg=$JTREG_HOME

where $JTREG_HOME is the location of the unpacked jtreg archive. The tests passed, as expected:

==============================
Test summary
==============================
   TEST                                              TOTAL  PASS  FAIL ERROR   
   jtreg:test/jdk/jdk/internal/math/ToDecimal            3     3     0     0   
==============================
TEST SUCCESS

> Brian Burkhalter, my sponsor, will soon publish the patch in webrev form.

Done [1].

> Of course, if anybody would like to step forward as a reviewer I'll be glad to help.

Any reviews would of course be most welcome, both of the patch itself, and of the CSR [2], provided for the latter one has a JBS login.

Thanks,

Brian

[1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/4511638/webrev.02/
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202555