Patch Ping: Double.parseDouble cannot handle NaN, Infinity or-Infinity

[Andrew Haley]

Mark Anderson writes:
 > On Thursday 17 March 2005 15:13, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Mark Anderson writes:
 > >  > I am working on the suggestions you made but have a question about CNI.
 > >  >
 > >  > I have added the string fields to Double.java eg.
 > >  >
 > >  > private static final String nanString = "NaN";
 > >  >
 > >  > In the CNI header this field is represented as follows:
 > >  >
 > >  > private:
 > >  >   static ::java::lang::String *nanString;
 > >  >
 > >  > My question is how do I access the value of nanString from CNI? I had
 > >  > thought I could just do str->equals(nanString) for my comparisons
 > >
 > > That should work.  What problems are you seeing?
 > >
 > > Andrew.
 > 
 > I have attached a new version of my patch and also a small test program.
 > 
 > If you run the test program with the patch applied, you still get a NumberFormatException. 
 > However, if you uncomment the first println call, the test is successful! Any idea why?

Yes.  If you use local class data in a static method, you have to make
sure your own class is initialized.  Compiled java methods do this
automagically.

Call _Jv_InitClass (&java::lang::Double::class$);

Andrew.