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Re: 600+ BigDecimal tests
- From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- To: Stephen Crawley <crawley at dstc dot edu dot au>
- Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>, Dalibor Topic <robilad at yahoo dot com>, mauve-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com, crawley at piglet dot dstc dot edu dot au
- Date: 19 Jan 2003 16:12:08 -0800
- Subject: Re: 600+ BigDecimal tests
- References: <200301192339.h0JNdufh022135@piglet.dstc.edu.au>
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:39, Stephen Crawley wrote:
> * Some of the other tests check exception message strings, and are
> failing because the messages are different.
>
> I don't know whether this is a bug or not. Is Classpath aiming to
> give the same exception messages as the Sun JDK implementation ???
I don't think so (could be wrong). I suppose we should remove these
tests.
>
> * The 'has001' failure is due to differences in the way that
> Classpath and the SUN JDK are calculating hashcodes.
>
> I don't know whether this is a bug or not. Is Classpath aiming to
> give the same hash code values as the Sun JDK implementation ???
I know that some people have spent time figuring out how Sun hashes
various objects, although I don't know if this is a policy.
AG