On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:32:45 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulie...@openjdk.org>
wrote:
>> fabioromano1 has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
>> commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Removed useless instruction
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/math/MutableBigInteger.java line 1936:
>
>> 1934: * where {@code nthRoot(., n)} denotes the mathematical {@code
>> n}th root.
>> 1935: * The contents of {@code this} are <em>not</em> changed. The
>> value of {@code this}
>> 1936: * is assumed to be non-negative and the root degree {@code n >=
>> 3}.
>
> I don't think `this` can be negative, can it?
@rgiulietti `this` could be negative if it were a `SignedMutableBigInteger`, by
the way the same assuption is made in `MBI.sqrtRem()`.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24898#discussion_r2205257292
