DecimalFormat.format: build-in limitations not specified

Name: saC57035 Date: 07/08/98


There are some internal limitations in the format(long, ...) method
of DecimalFormat. It cannot correctly handle the case when the
provided long value * multiplier is greater than Long.MAX_VALUE
(see rfe 4106664). Since API change request to fix this has been
rejected for JDK 1.2, we need at least to specify thoroughly these
limitations.

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