Bug in Float.valueOf(String)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 25, 1999, Archie Cobbs <archie at whistle.com> wrote:

> Maxim Kizub writes:

>> /* Floats are passed as doubles in C!!!!!
>> obj = (struct
>> Hjava_lang_Float*)execute_java_constructor("java.lang.Float", 0, "(F)V",
>> (float)java_lang_Double_valueOf0(str));

> I don't understand.. what's the problem? Are you just complaining about
> the loss of precision, or something worse?

It's much worse, and it's a problem of Kaffe I have reported to Tim
Wilkinson and documented in release 1.1 (or maybe 1.2) of Guaraná.  In
C, floats are promoted to doubles in ellipsis arguments, but Kaffe JIT
generates code to read a float from the stack, not a double.
Therefore, the constructor ends up picking the wrong value out of the
stack.  The problem also affects return values, if my memory serves.

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