On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:23:30 GMT, John Hendrikx <[email protected]> wrote:

>> should we have a check for Double.MAX_VALUE to avoid possible misuse?
>
> I think it would best to ignore this in this PR (it was broken before, it is 
> still now), and instead make a follow-up PR that switches round -> rint (this 
> was sort of the plan already) as round behaves poorly with our current 
> sentinel `Double.MAX_VALUE` or anything else that wouldn't fit in a `long`.
> 
> In that same PR, we can remove the `ulp` in the ceiling code, as removing an 
> `ulp` from `Double.MAX_VALUE` severely changes the value with no recourse.  A 
> constant epsilon (that is far smaller than `Double.MAX_VALUE`) would just be 
> ignored, ie:
> 
>      Double.MAX_VALUE - 0.0000001 == Double.MAX_VALUE
> 
> But
> 
>      Double.MAX_VALUE - ulp(Double.MAX_VALUE) >> Double.MAX_VALUE
> 
> (with `>>` meaning a lot smaller)

+1 for `round->rint` and removing the `ScaledMath.round()` in a followup.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/2278#discussion_r3898154942

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