RFR: 8073093: AARCH64: C2 generates poor code for ByteBuffer accesses

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/02/2015 22:10, Dean Long wrote:
>
> Even if linux-aarch64 always allows unaligned, checking only for 
> "aarch64" is not future-proof
> because it doesn't take the OS into account.  However, I really don't 
> like having to enumerate
> all relevant platforms in multiple places in shared code, so I 
> disagree with the existing code
> and with perpetuating the pattern.  As long as the decision is in 
> platform-specific code, a build-time
> decision may be entirely appropriate.
This alignment test in Bits.java has been there for a long time (JDK 
1.4). It's technical debt that hasn't surfaces very often as it's so 
rare to add architectures. If Unsafe gets a method to test the alignment 
then it would be great to get Bits changed.

-Alan