Just been to the ergnosis.com site which maintains an unofficial update on Java and there I read that Sun has confirmed that widefp and strictfp are two new keywords added to Java 2 but this isnt showing on the JLS.
Any help at all on this matter is appreciated
this is what they say
Issue: New keywords widefp and strictfp
Section: 3.9 Keywords
Status: CONFIRMED
Version 1.2 of the Java language adds two new keywords, widefp and strictfp, to allow floating-point calculations to use IEEE 754 extended-precision formats. These keywords are documented in a Sun paper, Proposal for Extension of Java Floating-Point in JDK 1.2. The change breaks programs that use widefp or strictfp as identifiers.
See the document Changes in JDK 1.2 Software for an overview of the changes to the language and virtual machine introduced by the new support for extended-precision formats.
and in that document I cannot seem to find anything
[This message has been edited by Nalini Mistry (edited April 27, 2000).]