RFR: 8343829: Unify decimal and hexadecimal parsing in FloatingDecimal [v7]

[Raffaello Giulietti]

On Fri, 2 May 2025 14:21:54 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Make some static arrays @Stable.
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> If I understand correctly, we are talking about several (primitive) array type fields having a `@Stable` annotation, in a single class, right? So we aren't really talking about levels?
> If so, given what `@Stable` is documented to do, I don't think the number of fields annotated as `@Stable` plays any role in the C2 compiler generating the resultant code.

@jaikiran "Levels" in the sense that Q_MIN depends on E_MIN, which depends on E_MAX, which depends on W, which depends on P.
If `@Stable` helps, which I think it does, great. If it doesn't, it shouldn't matter in practice.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22737#issuecomment-2847498217