Re: RFR: 8253459: Formatter treats index, width and precision > Integer.MAX_VALUE incorrectly [v7]

2020-11-13 Thread Ian Graves
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020 19:10:46 GMT, Ian Graves wrote: >> Is the new exception type useful? yes, it matches the previous pattern. >> But it does not (and none of the IllegalFormatException subclasses) produce >> a readable message with the offending value. So the developer will not see >> anything

Re: RFR: 8253459: Formatter treats index, width and precision > Integer.MAX_VALUE incorrectly [v7]

2020-11-13 Thread Ian Graves
> The `java.util.Formatter` format specifies support for field widths, argument > indexes, or precision lengths of a field that relate to the variadic > arguments supplied to the formatter. These numbers are specified by integers, > sometimes negative. For argument index, it's specified in the d