JEP proposed to target JDK 17: 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2021/5/20 16:09:34 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 17:
> 
>   306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
>        https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306
> 
>   Summary: Make floating-point operations consistently strict, rather
>   than have both strict floating-point semantics (strictfp) and subtly
>   different default floating-point semantics. This will restore the
>   original floating-point semantics to the language and VM, matching the
>   semantics before the introduction of strict and default floating-point
>   modes in Java SE 1.2.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 23:59 UTC on Thursday, 27 May, or if they’re raised and
> then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [2]
> I’ll target this JEP to JDK 17.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 17.

- Mark