Null-terminated Unicode strings in java.io on Windows

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi there,

> This is getting a bit hostile for no reason....  Thinking about
> alignment gives an interesting solution.
>
> 1) Strings are not null-terminated
> 2) For most strings the alignment gives the VM room to terminate in
> place when GetStringChars is called
> 3) Copy strings that can't be terminated in place.

However GetStringChars() as far as I know always returns a copy
because hotspot does not support pinning (or at least I think so) - at
least for the moving GCs. So if one byte more is allocated or not on
the JNI side should not make much difference even if its never needed.

lg Clemens