Re: [cinjug-users] Java vs. C

["josh marotti" <marotti@xxxxxxxxx>]

And don't forget the rounding rules that Java uses (if you are dealing
with floats/doubles/bigdecimals):

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/math/BigDecimal.html#ROUND_HALF_EVEN

-Josh

On 10/15/07, James Carman <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is the old code making any assumptions about the size of an int when
> doing the bit shifting?
>
> On 10/15/07, Hudson, Loren (GE Infra, Aviation, Non-GE, US)
> <loren.hudson@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I'm currently working on porting some C code over to Java.  The code opens a
> > binary file, extracts the relevant data, and spits out a .csv file.  I'm
> > getting some issues with the totals being off.
> >
> > The code was originally written by an engineer, not a programmer.  This is
> > the fourth such program I've ported, and haven't had any real issues.  For
> > the most part, I just wrap the already-written C code with some Java data
> > structures, change the file i/o to use Java commands, and I'm done.  The
> > program uses bit masking, bit shifting, and a whole host of global
> > variables.
> >
> > My question is this:  Are there any pitfalls that you know of that I could
> > be falling into with the C code that compiles as Java code?  I've never used
> > C before, so this program is really the extent to which I know C.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  Mike Hudson
> > MDW - Military Data Warehouse
> > Java Developer/Solution Architect
> > Sogeti Consultant
> > loren.hudson@xxxxxx
> >
>
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