[freenet-devl] Re: Yet another GCJ update. (a/k/a PR 1615followup)

Sat Feb 24 20:27:00 GMT 2001

On 24 Feb 2001, Per Bothner wrote:
> "Mark J. Roberts" <mjr@statesmean.com> writes:
>> > This patch breaks BigInteger.divide:
>> So it does. It seems like I need to merge in more code ...
> Could you try this patch instead?

This looks OK with my test program, which tests just about every method,
and also with Freenet. Cool.
Today I found a different bug in the BigInteger(byte[]) constructor, where
bogus output is returned:
import java.math.BigInteger;
public class Test {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
 byte b[] = {73, -106, 2, -46}; // aka "1234567890"
 System.out.println(new BigInteger(b));
 }
}
mjr::mjr$ javac Test.java ; java -cp . Test
1234567890
mjr::mjr$ gcj --main=Test -o test Test.java ; ./test
0
The value returned is not always 0, but it seems to be for smallish
values.
-- 
Mark Roberts
mjr@statesmean.com