Re: java.math.*

[Brian Jones]

Per Bothner <address@hidden> writes:

> Brian Jones wrote:
> 
> >I'd like to adopt the gcj java.math.BigInteger/BigDecimal classes and
> >the related gnu.gcj.math.MPN.  This latter class is from Kawa so I'd
> >like to make sure we can use this.  Are there any problems or
> >objections?
> >
> You have my blessing (as author of Kawa and the MPN class).

Thank you.
 
> It would be nice if someone cleaned up the serialization. Right now
> BigInteger has a bunch of extra fields which are only used
> temporarily during serialization, to match Sun's format.  

I've added this as a task to the Savannah project page for java.math.

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Brian Jones <address@hidden>