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Old behaviour restored in Java 17

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Mention this: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/306 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kupppper (talk • contribs) 17:24, 18 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

gubbins

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What the hell is a "gubbins"?

And what is Jet?

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As far as I can tell Jet is Excelsior JET. I don't think it is necessarily relevant here. Glasser 16:57, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

overflow vs. underflow

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The article says, "This could sometimes result in a numeric overflow or underflow in the middle of a calculation, even if the end result would be a valid number." Can someone give an example? that will be very nice. Jackzhp 02:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Example?

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http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/enwiki/api/java/lang/Math.html does not use the strictfp expression as this current sample source code from this article suggests: 

 // From java.lang.Math class............
 public static strictfp double abs(double);
 public static strictfp int max(int, int);
 public static strictfp long max(long, long);
 public static strictfp float max(float, float);
 public static strictfp double max(double, double);
 public static strictfp int min(int, int);

--Abdull (talk) 14:57, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

java.lang.Math.java doesn't contain "strictfp".

I've searched with Google code search, and I found:

That's all for the first 10 pages; the rest are all vm implementations, syntax highlighters &c. A similar search for StrictMath yielded:

In all cases, the use of using strictfp is highly debatable. I don't think many tears would be shed if they keyword were dropped (or perhaps replaced by a few functions that do the necessary work). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.87.74 (talk) 01:42, 26 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merging-in information

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Criticism of Java#Floating point arithmetic is being merged here. Any idea of how best to do it?  dmyersturnbull  ⇒ talk 17:31, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Strictftp a problem?

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None of the sources mention strictftp and only one of them mentions that the way java handles float values is a problem. Is this point even valid or just a mixup of java float in general with the strictftp keyword? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.134.60.44 (talk) 13:32, 24 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To my knowledge, you are correct: it is not strictfp that is considered to be a problem but there are ideas for improving Java's floating-point performance further at the cost of platform-dependence. I rephrased the section. Jaan Vajakas (talk) 13:43, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

strictfp for blocks

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It is possible to write a strictfp block (inside a method), or even a strictfp statement, for example strictfp x=y; . Please verify that it works properly (didn't check it) and find a reference. Honnza (talk) 10:38, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

java.lang.Math has no strictfp usage

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This article claims that

The Java package java.lang.Math class contains these strictfp methods: 

 public static strictfp double abs(double);
 public static strictfp int max(int, int);
 public static strictfp long max(long, long);
 public static strictfp float max(float, float);
 public static strictfp double max(double, double);
 public static strictfp int min(int, int);

, but on inspection of the Java source code provided with the JDK, I found absolutely no occurrence of strictfp — Supuhstar * § 21:38, 26 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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