RFR: 8233760: Result of BigDecimal.toString throws overflow exception on new BigDecimal(str)

[Joe Darcy]

On Thu, 26 May 2022 18:02:14 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <duke at openjdk.java.net> wrote:

> BigDecimal(String) currently fails to accept some strings produced by BigDecimal.toString(). This PR removes this limitation.

test/jdk/java/math/BigDecimal/StringConstructor.java line 69:

> 67:         constructWithError("0.01e"+Integer.MIN_VALUE);
> 68:         constructWithError("1e"+((long)Integer.MIN_VALUE-1));
> 69: 

Please add some test cases to demonstrate that the round-tripping that previous did not work is functional after the fix.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8905