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-rw-r--r--java/lang/Long.java3
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 36d655047..2497d9cb8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-07-01 Christian Thalinger <twisti@complang.tuwien.ac.at>
+
+ * java/lang/Long.java (signum): Implemented properly as described
+ in Hacker's Delight Section 2-7.
+
2008-06-30 Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>
PR classpath/35237:
diff --git a/java/lang/Long.java b/java/lang/Long.java
index d92676bb3..685271304 100644
--- a/java/lang/Long.java
+++ b/java/lang/Long.java
@@ -689,7 +689,8 @@ public final class Long extends Number implements Comparable<Long>
*/
public static int signum(long x)
{
- return (int)(x >> 63) - (int)(-x >> 63);
+ // Hacker's Delight, Section 2-7
+ return (int) ((x >> 63) | (-x >>> 63));
}
/**