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

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:34:46 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Double.java line 231:
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>> 229:      * @since 1.6
>> 230:      */
>> 231:     public static final int MAX_EXPONENT = (1 << (SIZE - PRECISION - 1)) - 1;
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> Please include the expected value as a comment; e.g. 
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> (1 << (SIZE - PRECISION - 1)) - 1; // 1023

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