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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:19:33 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org, java-port@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: New JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <199907210419.OAA05553@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <199907202343.RAA23566@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:43:30 -0600"
References:  <199907202343.RAA23566@mt.sri.com>

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On Tuesday, 20th July 1999, Nate Williams wrote:

>A new release has been made to fix a couple bugs in the old release.

Thank you!  Gush!  Gush!  Praise!  (Hmm, was that a bit too much? :-)

>Please updates to the most recent version, especially if you're doing
>*ANY* FPU work, as the old version would product bogus results in
>certain cases.

Everyone should upgrade.  We were bitten by floating point failures in
the java date routines.  Have a look at java.util.GregorianCalendar some
time.  Have a bucket handy.  Well, it offended me, at least.

Stephen.


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