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To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: strange java calculation errors 
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> >I use the latest jdk1.1.8_ELF.V99-6-3.tar.gz with applied net-patch.
> >On a few-weeks-old 3.2-STABLE.
> >I have strange arithmetic errors.  I sometimes get NaN-s
> >and very big numbers (...E306) which don't appear on any other machine/os
> >and don't appear with the linux-jdk1.2 pre-v2.
> 
> We are getting occasional failures in the GregorianCalendar routines.
> For some inexplicable reason it is full of floating point calculations.
> Every so often, one of these calculations is wildly incorrect, and we
> get an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (when looking up the month in
> an array).  We have a little bit of trace showing one of the statements
> returning 0 or 9223372036854775807 sometimes (instead of an expected
> result of a few thousand).

As always, unless we can reproduce this bug, it's almost impossible to
track down.  If you can provide us a test case, there is a very good
chance we can fix this.


Nate


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