[9] RFR of 8140630: java/nio/Buffer/Basic.java crashes vm on linux-x64 using latest devkit to build

[Brian Burkhalter]

The problem is due to a non-alignment issue as you previously suggested. Suppressing it via the build configuration change is a procedural matter: work to find the root problem and a real solution continues nonetheless.

On Nov 4, 2015, at 7:46 PM, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:

> OK, I looked a little closer.
> 
> We need to actually understand this crash, and create a small repro  recipe.
> 
> It's not at all obvious what the purpose of those methods in Bits.java and Bits.c is - they apparently always byte-swap, but that is very surprising from their names, e.g. copyToIntArray. Give those methods some javadoc! Maybe the crash comes from type punning int* and float* ? We shouldn't suppress the crash unless we can prove it's actually a compiler bug. Why do these methods take Object instead of e.g. int[] as parameters?