RFR (S) 8217315: Proper units should print more significant digits

[Thomas Stüfe]

Latest iteration is still fine.

..Thomas

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 4:23 PM Aleksey Shipilev <shade at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 1/17/19 4:08 PM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> > Looks good to me too.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > A better solution may be printing as float, see e.g.
> "print_human_readable_size"
> > in metaspaceCommon.cpp . But that is outside the scope of your change.
>
> Yes.
>
> > As for the test, note that you could include all sizes up to the last
> one (50G) in 32bit too.
>
> I could, but I would like not to, and follow what other tests in the same
> file do with "G". "G" is
> very close to SIZE_MAX on 32/31 bit platforms, it seems risky to expose it
> too much.
>
> -Aleksey
>
>