RFR: 8305734: BitSet.get(int, int) always returns the empty BitSet when the Integer.MAX VALUE is set

Fri Apr 14 15:56:36 UTC 2023

On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 15:07:37 GMT, Andy-Tatman <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> So while changing the specifications is possible, it can potentially break existing clients. The change suggested in this pull request avoids this and instead fixes the internal bug of the get function locally, without affecting the other methods and without affecting existing clients.

I think it will require re-visting the spec, it's unfortunate that this wasn't recognised in JDK-8230557..

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13388#issuecomment-1508862261