RFR: 8343829: Unify decimal and hexadecimal parsing in FloatingDecimal [v6]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Fri, 2 May 2025 12:00:13 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulietti at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> See the JBS bug for some details.
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> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains nine additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Remove unused BIG_DECIMAL_EXPONENT
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8343829
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8343829
>  - Redacted comments.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8343829
>  - Minors in comments.
>  - Removed repeated comment.
>  - Refactoring some code and comments.
>  - 8343829: Unify decimal and hexadecimal parsing in FloatingDecimal

This is just the first step of a planned overhaul of conversions from decimal strings to floating-point values. There are more steps to come.
So I'm not sure that #24999 turns out to be useful at this stage.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22737#issuecomment-2847108653