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+++ new/test/java/math/BigDecimal/PrecisionTests.java	Tue Mar 17 14:11:35 2009
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+/*
+ * Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
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+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 1234567
+ * @summary Test that precision() is computed properly.
+ * @author Joseph D. Darcy
+ */
+
+import java.math.*;
+import static java.math.BigDecimal.*;
+
+public class PrecisionTests {
+    private static BigDecimal NINE = valueOf(9);
+
+    public static void main(String argv[]) {
+	int failures = 0;
+
+	// Smallest and largest values of a given length
+	BigDecimal[] testValues = {
+	    valueOf(1), valueOf(9),
+	};
+
+	failures += testPrecision(new BigDecimal(0), 1);
+	
+	for(int i = 1; i < 100; i++) {
+	    for(BigDecimal bd : testValues) {
+		failures += testPrecision(bd, i);
+		failures += testPrecision(bd.negate(), i);
+	    }
+
+	    testValues[0] = testValues[0].multiply(TEN);
+	    testValues[1] = testValues[1].multiply(TEN).add(NINE);
+	}
+
+        // The following test tries to cover testings for precision of long values
+        BigDecimal[] randomTestValues = {
+            valueOf(2147483648L),          // 2^31:       10 digits
+            valueOf(-2147483648L),         // -2^31:      10 digits
+            valueOf(98893745455L),         // random:     11 digits
+            valueOf(3455436789887L),       // random:     13 digits
+            valueOf(140737488355328L),     // 2^47:       15 digits
+            valueOf(-140737488355328L),    // -2^47:      15 digits
+            valueOf(7564232235739573L),    // random:     16 digits
+            valueOf(25335434990002322L),   // random:     17 digits
+            valueOf(9223372036854775807L), // 2^63 - 1:   19 digits
+            valueOf(-9223372036854775807L) // -2^63 + 1:  19 digits
+        };
+        // The array below contains the expected precision of the above numbers
+        int[] expectedPrecision = {10, 10, 11, 13, 15, 15, 16, 17, 19, 19};
+        for (int i = 0; i < randomTestValues.length; i++) {
+            failures += testPrecision(randomTestValues[i], expectedPrecision[i]);
+        }
+
+	if (failures > 0) {
+	    throw new RuntimeException("Incurred " + failures + 
+				       " failures while testing precision.");
+	}
+    }
+
+    private static int testPrecision(BigDecimal bd, int expected) {
+	int precision = bd.precision();
+
+	// System.out.printf("Testing %s, expected %d%n", bd, expected);
+	
+	if (precision != expected) {
+	    System.err.printf("For (%s).precision expected %d, got %d%n",
+			       bd, expected, precision);
+	    return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+    }
+}