Bug ID: JDK-8149896 Removed unnecessary values in FloatConsts and DoubleConsts

JDK-8149896 : Removed unnecessary values in FloatConsts and DoubleConsts

Type: Bug
Component: core-libs
Sub-Component: java.lang
Affected Version: 9

Priority: P4
Status: Resolved
Resolution: Fixed

Submitted: 2016-02-16
Updated: 2021-06-28
Resolved: 2016-02-16

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JDK 8	JDK 9
8u311Fixed	9 b107Fixed

Related Reports

Relates :	JDK-8149981 - java/util/Formatter/Basic.java fails after JDK-8149896
Relates :	JDK-8151776 - Add constants related to floating-point fields to Float and Double
Relates :	JDK-7088952 - Add "BYTES" constant to primitive wrapper classes
Relates :	JDK-8145990 - Move sun.misc math support classes to jdk.internal.math
Relates :	JDK-4826652 - Add copySign, nextAfter, nextUp, scalb, ilogb, etc. to Math and StrictMath

Description

The the FloatConsts and DoubleConsts classes, while moved to an internal package recently (JDK-8145990), contain values now available via the public API (JDK-4826652). All such uses of the redundant values should be removed as such the redundant constants themselves.