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Offline appel

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« on: 2006-12-17 07:53:15 »
Hi,

I've been looking at the my class file in Jshrink, and I notice that float values like 0.03f get extracted to something like 0.029999999329447746. Clearly, this will take up bytes?
Is there a way to "trick" Java not to do that? I've tried to use (float)0.03  (double that is) but Java outsmarts me and makes it a float.

But why does it do this to floats anyway? Doesn't do it to double :\
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« Reply #1 on: 2006-12-17 08:04:36 »
you could try strictfp, though i don't know why you're having this problem in the first place.

consider this test:
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public class Test {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      float x = 0.03f;
      System.out.println(x);
      x = new Float(0.03f).floatValue();
      System.out.println(x);
      x = Float.parseFloat("0.03");
      System.out.println(x);
   }
}


output:
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0.03
0.03
0.03
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« Reply #2 on: 2006-12-17 08:07:51 »
>Clearly, this will take up bytes?

As much space as a float or double takes. What you see there is the string representation.

edit:
float f1=0.3f;
float f2=(float)0.3;
double d1=0.333;

becomes:
float f = 0.3F;
float f1 = 0.3F;
double d = 0.33300000000000002D;
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Offline SluX

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« Reply #3 on: 2006-12-17 08:18:24 »
Yeah, it will take as much space as floating point numbers use for their representation(IEEE 754 standard)...
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Offline appel

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« Reply #4 on: 2006-12-17 09:28:35 »
I know that float is 32bit, so they take up 4 bytes. But that's in memory! What about in class files?

woogley, I tried that Test... and then I opened the class file in JShrink and this is what I see...:

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  static public void main(String[] args) {
    float x;
    x = 0.029999999329447746;
    out.println(x);
    x = new Float(0.029999999329447746).floatValue();
    out.println(x);
    x = Float.parseFloat("0.03");
    out.println(x);
  }
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Offline woogley

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« Reply #5 on: 2006-12-17 09:34:12 »
whatever is converting that class (is it your code? or one of the optimizers?) needs to be using strictfp i think. I open it with JAD and the 0.03f remains in the classfile.
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« Reply #6 on: 2006-12-17 12:43:00 »
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I know that float is 32bit, so they take up 4 bytes. But that's in memory! What about in class files?

0.03f  -->  5 characters = 5 bytes

.0.029999999329447746 -->  4 bytes


I'm not seeing a problem here....
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« Reply #7 on: 2006-12-17 13:28:52 »
Quote from: nonnus29 on 2006-12-17 12:43:00
0.03f  -->  5 characters = 5 bytes

.0.029999999329447746 -->  4 bytes


I'm not seeing a problem here....

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