Name: mf23781 Date: 07/11/98


The Float and Double classes' toString (and the String and other
classes that uses these) produce results that do not match the
JLS (or the BigDecimal class, which has its own code for
conversion from Float and Double, for some reason); a trailing .0
supplied for non-zero results.
This applies to both 1.1 and 1.2.

For example, the testcase:

 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.lang.Double;
 class testd2s {
  public static void main(String s[]){
   double d=100D;
   BigDecimal bd=new BigDecimal(d);
   System.out.println(bd.toString());
   System.out.println(new Double(d).toString());
  }
 }

displays:

 100
 100.0

(BigDecimal is giving the right answer; Double is not.)

The problem would seem to be in the (undocumented?) FloatingDecimal class.
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