Lexicographic array comparators

[Andrew Haley]

On 02/13/2015 02:58 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
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> On Feb 13, 2015, at 3:31 PM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 02/13/2015 01:56 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>> John suggested that a general array mis-match method could be achieved with carefully written Java code [1], and slightly hidden within that is the comment "FIXME: Add Unsafe.getLongMisaligned to avoid this cutout".
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>> Right, so we're definitely thinking along the same lines.  Maybe I
>> could do the HotSpot work for Unsafe.getUnalignedX.
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> Got for it! 
> 
> I would be happy to give it a test drive.

I have a patch that seems to work, but it's still rather raw.  It'll
need a lot of testing, I guess.  Do you want to try it now?

Andrew.