On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 02:05:40 GMT, Joe Darcy <da...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Generally add apiNote's to map from Java library methods to particular IEEE 
>> 754 operations. For now, I only added such notes to java.lang.Math and not 
>> java.lang.StrictMath.
>
> Joe Darcy has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
> or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in 
> by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since 
> the last revision:
> 
>  - Respond to review feedback; make another pass to link methods to IEEE 754 
> operations.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8273346
>  - Add floor and ceil.
>  - JDK-8273346: Examine use of "rounding mode" and "rounding policy" in Math 
> and StrictMath

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Math.java line 823:

> 821:      * @apiNote
> 822:      * This method corresponds to the convertTowardPositive operation
> 823:      * defined in IEEE 754.

Probably what is meant is IEEE `convertToIntegerTowardPositive` (not 
`convertTowardPositive`).
However, that's another kind of rounding, which always rounds any non-integral 
value toward positive infinity, not just ties. This is not what happens with 
this method.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8876

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