Oliver,
I don't believe you will lose precision if the number is below MAX_LONG
? When I tested it on my system, I was able to retrieve a double that
was equal to MAX_LONG without losing precision.
I understand your concern about silently discarding the fractional
portion, but I also believe if the user is using this, then they know
what they are doing. Time will tell.
Dave
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 11:04, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Dave Cramer wrote:
> > Attached, with -cb this time
>
> Thanks. Comments:
>
> How you handle bytes and shorts is inconsistent with how you handle
> longs; we should consistently do it one way or the other. Since you lose
> precision going via a double, that probably means the BigInteger approach.
>
> The shared conversion/rangecheck logic should be done once in a helper
> function rather than duplicated -- call the helper with appropriate
> range info and cast the result.
>
> I still don't like silently discarding any fractional portion of the value.
>
> -O
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