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Bloch copied from Arrays.java

Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 12:40 PM EDT

AFAIK, Bloch is not the original author of Arrays.java or of its rangecheck function.

My impression (and correct me if I'm wrong) is that he actually is the original human author, but that the original was a work-for-hire and thus owned by his then employer Sun rather than Bloch.

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Bloch copied from Arrays.java - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 22 2012 @ 08:59 PM EDT

Bloch testified he wrote rangeCheck in Arrays

Authored by: hardmath on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 09:11 AM EDT

According to our report from Day 4, Dr. Bloch testified as follows:

Q. Do you know of the existence of other rangecheck() functions?
A. Yes, there's one in arrays.java. I wrote it.

He goes on to explain that the reproduction of the same code in TimSort() was intended as a temporary step, pending the donation and merger of the code into the OpenJDK source.

regards, hm

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