Doesnt hang Ruby 1.9 (MRI) and python 2.7 and python 3.1
Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308
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#13I remember when everyone was bashing PHP ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066084 ) when they were bitten by the same issue. Then there were articles about this being maybe a GCC bug or at least design issue but people were still saying that it's PHP's duty to take care of this. I was always afraid that this might bite other environments too as the code that caused the issue in PHP was apparently taken from else…
Rasmus just tweeted about it:
Java's turn to deal with the x87 register issue. Here's a hint Oracle, "volatile"
Re: Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308
#14Doesnt hang Ruby 1.9 (MRI) and python 2.7 and python 3.1
Ruby 1.8.7 appears to be fine too
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#15"Konstantin reported this problem to Oracle three weeks ago, but is still waiting for a reply." This speaks volumes about Oracle as the Java's steward.
Sun wasn't much better in this regard
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#16Doesnt hang Ruby 1.9 (MRI) and python 2.7 and python 3.1
Ruby 1.8.7 appears to be fine too
This particular value is specific to the Java implementation. Ruby has very similar code to PHP though, so a slight variation of the value may trigger it. You also have to be on a platform that actually has an x87, of course.
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#17"Konstantin reported this problem to Oracle three weeks ago, but is still waiting for a reply." This speaks volumes about Oracle as the Java's steward.
So they're not falling over themselves to fix a bug which no one has noticed for 10+ years, and which hardly anyone is going to hit in actual use. Maybe they're spending their time fixing problems which are actually affecting developers.
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#18"Konstantin reported this problem to Oracle three weeks ago, but is still waiting for a reply." This speaks volumes about Oracle as the Java's steward.
So they're not falling over themselves to fix a bug which no one has noticed for 10+ years, and which hardly anyone is going to hit in actual use. Maybe they're spending their time fixing problems which are actually affecting developers.
Any public-facing Java server affected by this bug that accepts floating point numbers from the user as a string can be hung by this bug.
This is going to be a big problem.
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#19I assume this hits Clojure, JRuby, etc. harder because it affects all values which are converted to Strings, but only affects Java when one explicitly converts to Double?
So when a (Java) website expects an Int as input, it's not affected, but Clojure,JRuby etc would be?
Am I right, what am I missing?
(see the comment with
user=> (def d 2.2250738585072012e-308)
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Re: Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308
#20I remember when everyone was bashing PHP ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2066084 ) when they were bitten by the same issue. Then there were articles about this being maybe a GCC bug or at least design issue but people were still saying that it's PHP's duty to take care of this. I was always afraid that this might bite other environments too as the code that caused the issue in PHP was apparently taken from else…
Yes, astonishing how Oracle (and others) didn't check their code when this surfaced in PHP to determine if they are affected too.