RFR: 8279986: methods Math::asXExact for safely checked primitive casts [v3]

[Joe Darcy]

On Tue, 10 May 2022 13:47:35 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

>> Add a family of "safe" cast methods.
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> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8279986: methods Math::asXExact for safely checked primitive casts

As a reminder, once the spec is finalized, versions of the methods and spec need to be added to StrictMath too.

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