RFR (10): JDK-8181191: getUint32 returning Long

[Marcus Lagergren]

This cache thing is my least favourite behavior in the entire JLS. Crazy that it’s actually a mandated part of the language specification.

+1

/M

> On 13 Jun 2017, at 18:28, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Am 13.06.2017 um 18:17 schrieb Attila Szegedi <szegedia at gmail.com>:
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>> the test described in the issue was failing because we treated Long objects as JS objects, right?
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> Yes. 127 compared equal to itself because Long instances between -128 and 127 are cached, 128 is just outside that range.
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> Thanks for the review!
> Hannes
> 
>> Attila.
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>>> On 13 Jun 2017, at 17:51, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Please review: 
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>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8181191
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8181191/webrev/
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Hannes
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