RFR: 8285477: Add a PRECISION public static field to j.l.Float and j.l.Double [v2]

[Joe Darcy]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 14:38:06 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> Add useful constants specified in IEEE 754.
>
> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8285477: Add a PRECISION public static field to j.l.Float and j.l.Double

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Double.java line 231:

> 229:      * @since 1.6
> 230:      */
> 231:     public static final int MAX_EXPONENT = (1 << (SIZE - PRECISION - 1)) - 1;

Please include the expected value as a comment; e.g. 

(1 << (SIZE - PRECISION - 1)) - 1; // 1023

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Float.java line 128:

> 126:      * The number of bits in the significand of a {@code float} value.
> 127:      * This is the parameter N in section {@jls 4.2.3} of
> 128:      * <em>The Java Language Specification</em>.

Please use "cite" rather than "em" tags for references to the JLS.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8362