[GROOVY-8948] BigDecimal to primitive conversion not working

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.5
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.20, 5.0.0-alpha-3, 4.0.16
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: Kenneth Gendron
• Created: 05/Jan/19 20:27
• Updated: 22/Dec/23 11:38
• Resolved: 27/Nov/23 16:57

Description

The following code will not compile with Groovy:

Math.ceil(1/2)

Groovy insists that it try to find Math.ceil(BigDecimal), as opposed to performing the conversion to a double.  The following will work though:

Math.ceil((double)1/2)

But the above should not be necessary as Groovy should unbox it.

Incidentally, this did work with version 2.4.12 and below.

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-8325 @CompileStatic calls wrong newInstance method.
• is related to: GROOVY-8488 STC: floating-point literals no longer accepted as args to method with double parameter