Java’s decimal to floating-point conversion routine, the doubleValue() method of its FloatingDecimal class, goes into an infinite loop when converting the decimal string 2.2250738585072012e-308 to double-precision binary floating-point. I took a closer look at the bug, by tracing the doubleValue() method in the Eclipse IDE for Java (thanks to Konstantin Preißer for helping me set that up). What I found was that our initial analysis of the bug was wrong; what actually happens is that doubleValue()’s correction loop oscillates between two values, 0x1p-1022 and 0x0.fffffffffffffp-1022.
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