> From: Paul Fisher
>
> "John Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > And I'm still missing documentation for those WIDEFP_* fields in
> > Float.
>
> They're explained in the strictfp documentation.
>
Aha! I went searching the bowels of the change docs and found out why I
couldn't find those fields. This is apparently an RC1 change:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/changes.html#aaa23
Revised Floating Point API
The public review of the floating point proposal is complete, and changes
are being made to the proposal and implementation made based on feedback
gathered during the review. Static int fields WIDEFP_MIN_EXPONENT,
WIDEFP_MIN_EXPONENT, and WIDEFP_SIGNIFICAND_BITS have been removed from
classes java.lang.Float and java.lang.Double. These fields had been
introduced earlier in the JDK 1.2 software beta cycle. The widefp keyword
implemented in Beta 4 has been removed due to public review feedback. In the
Windows version of this release, the Symantec JIT compiler has been modified
to take advantage of these features of the revised proposal. Also see the
earlier change Extended Floating Point Semantics.
I will remove the fields henceforth.
Thanks for your assistance.
--John
