RFR: 8279986: methods Math::asXExact for safely checked primitive casts

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Thu, 5 May 2022 15:07:32 GMT, Michael Hixson <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

> Rationale: It loses information. It truncates the sign, so the value can't be round-tripped. I think it would be the only lossy transformation permitted by the to*Exact methods?

Right.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8548