RFR: 4511638: Double.toString(double) sometimes produces incorrect results [v2]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 11:30:32 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <github.com+70726043+rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hello,
>> 
>> here's a PR for a patch submitted on March 2020 [1](https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/4511638/webrev.04/) when Mercurial was a thing.
>> 
>> The patch has been edited to adhere to OpenJDK code conventions about multi-line (block) comments. Nothing in the code proper has changed, except for the addition of redundant but clarifying parentheses in some expressions.
>> 
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Raffaello
>
> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   4511638: Double.toString(double) sometimes produces incorrect results

Hi Guy,

while implementing the additional test recommended in your point (2), it occurred to me that the numbers of the form y 10^n, y in D_k (k = 1, 2, 3, 4) end up being of the form y' 10^n', where y' = y / 10^k, n' = n + k, plus the 2 * Y values around these. Such numbers do not seem to show any special structure worth a dedicated test, so I'm wondering if you mean something else instead.

Perhaps you mean y to have at most 4 digits, i.e., 0 <= y < 10^4?


Greetings
Raffaello

P.S. The test recommended in point (1) pass successfully.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3402