Re: java.lang.Float.MAX_EXPONENT cannot be resolved

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:00:28 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<d3e7fd41-77a5-4d27-8961-3a99f3f478da@googlegroups.com>
mathar wrote:

Under openSuse, the following program says that

        int indx8 = java.lang.Float.MAX_EXPONENT ;
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1 problem (1 error)

after javac t.java where t.java contains

package de.viper_ag.util ;


Because this type is in a package, one expects to see that package
reflected in the command line.

// import java.lang.Float ;


It's never necessary to import 'java.lang' types.

public class t {

        private void init()
        {
                // int indx8 = Float.MAX_EXPONENT ;


Yes, this should have worked. Strange.

                // int indx8 = MAX_EXPONENT ;

                int indx8 = java.lang.Float.MAX_EXPONENT ;


Same difference.

                // indx8 = java.lang.Math.getExponent(java.lang.Float.MAX_VALUE) ;
        }
}

 java -version


What about "javac -version"?

Grasping at straws here.

java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.3) (suse-9.1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

This type of error does not occur with Fedora-9 or Fedora-14 distributions.
Any workaround for this?


No. It's an "impossible" error. Something is fubared in your Java setup,
if John's suggestion doesn't work.

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