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-rw-r--r--libjava/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--libjava/java/math/BigDecimal.java2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index f326bb9..eb11f12 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2001-01-10 Warren Levy <warrenl@redhat.com>
+ * java/math/BigDecimal.java (divide): Fixed comment.
+
+2001-01-10 Warren Levy <warrenl@redhat.com>
+
Fix for PR libgcj/1596:
* java/math/BigDecimal.java (divide): Check newScale for validity.
Ensure that BigInteger.pow() is called with a non-negative value.
diff --git a/libjava/java/math/BigDecimal.java b/libjava/java/math/BigDecimal.java
index 007f3a3..6fbd927 100644
--- a/libjava/java/math/BigDecimal.java
+++ b/libjava/java/math/BigDecimal.java
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ public class BigDecimal extends Number implements Comparable {
if (power < 0)
{
// Effectively increase the scale of val to avoid an
- // IllegalArgumentException for a negative power.
+ // ArithmeticException for a negative power.
valIntVal = valIntVal.multiply (BigInteger.valueOf (10).pow (-power));
power = 0;
}