java/math/BigDecimal is missing ???

Godmar Back gback at cs.utah.edu
Tue Aug 25 15:20:22 PDT 1998


 Hi Ean,

> 
> You should also continue to track the progress of the CLASSPATH project.
> I believe they have big integer and most of big decimal working.

 The status says complete, but it when I checked it out, I could
only find BigInteger.java and no BigDecimal.java, and none of the
native methods at all (the directory native/java.math was empty).  The 
status webpage does say it's complete, though.

	- Godmar

> 
> Please see http://www.classpath.org 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 09:15:50AM -0600, Godmar Back wrote:
> > 
> > You're right.
> > 
> > * java.math.* is missing.  However, clib/math/BigInteger.c still contains
> >   the native functions used for java.math.BigInteger.  Hence, it might work
> >   to use Sun's  java/math/*.class files (or append classes.zip to the
> >   CLASSPATH after Klasses.jar)
> > 
> > 	- Godmar
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm just trying some of my java stuff on Kaffe 1.0.b1-1 on a RH5.1 i386
> > > system.
> > > 
> > > Seems that java/math/BigDecimal is missing.
> > > 
> > > The same thing occur with latest snap 9 Aug 1998 !!!
> > > 
> > > What Classes are supported by Kaffe 1.01 ? Did I had to install also a
> > > CLASSES.ZIP from a standard JDK ???
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	Thanks !!!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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