2007-05-11 Jeroen Frijters <jeroen@frijters.net>

        * java/lang/Float.java
        (toString(float)): Call VMFloat instead of VMDouble.
        (parseFloat): Call VMFloat. Fixed comment.
        * vm/reference/java/lang/VMFloat.java
        (toString, parseFloat): New methods.
        NEWS: added note about these changes.

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/vm/reference/java/lang/VMFloat.java b/vm/reference/java/lang/VMFloat.java
index 2e7f439a4..15348130f 100644
--- a/vm/reference/java/lang/VMFloat.java
+++ b/vm/reference/java/lang/VMFloat.java
@@ -108,4 +108,26 @@ final class VMFloat
    */
   static native float intBitsToFloat(int bits);
 
+  /**
+   * @param f the <code>float</code> to convert
+   * @return the <code>String</code> representing the <code>float</code>
+   */
+  static String toString(float f)
+  {
+    return VMDouble.toString(f, true);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @param str the <code>String</code> to convert
+   * @return the <code>float</code> value of <code>s</code>
+   * @throws NumberFormatException if <code>str</code> cannot be parsed as a
+   *         <code>float</code>
+   * @throws NullPointerException if <code>str</code> is null
+   */
+  static float parseFloat(String str)
+  {
+    // XXX Rounding parseDouble() causes some errors greater than 1 ulp from
+    // the infinitely precise decimal.
+    return (float) Double.parseDouble(str);
+  }
 } // class VMFloat