From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jul 20 21:23:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ren.detir.qld.gov.au (ns.detir.qld.gov.au [203.46.81.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C2F15155; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au) Received: by ren.detir.qld.gov.au; id OAA21844; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:21:33 +1000 (EST) Received: from ogre.detir.qld.gov.au(167.123.8.3) by ren.detir.qld.gov.au via smap (3.2) id xmab21715; Wed, 21 Jul 99 14:21:06 +1000 Received: from atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (atlas.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.8.9]) by ogre.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA03778; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:19:35 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (nymph.detir.qld.gov.au [167.123.10.10]) by atlas.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13338; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:19:34 +1000 (EST) Received: from nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (localhost.detir.qld.gov.au [127.0.0.1]) by nymph.detir.qld.gov.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA05553; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:19:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from syssgm@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au) Message-Id: <199907210419.OAA05553@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.org, java-port@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au Subject: Re: New JDK1.1.8 for FreeBSD References: <199907202343.RAA23566@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199907202343.RAA23566@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:43:30 -0600" Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 14:19:33 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message