Unsafe.{get,put}-X-Unaligned; Efficient array comparison intrinsics

[Andrew Haley]

On 24/02/15 23:20, John Rose wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com <mailto:aph at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>
>>> There will be only one runtime Unsafe sub-type ever observed in a 
>>> particular VM.
>>
>> Oh, that's very nice.
> 
> That doesn't help with B accesses on L platforms and vice versa.

It wasn't supposed to, but OK, I guess we can extend it to do that.
Byte reversal was never handled at this level before and I'm not at
all sure it should be.  I'll have a look.

> Having an optional boolean parameter (gating reverseBytes) will help.
> 
> Also, it makes Unsafe non-final, which frankly gives me the willies.
> (Technical term, used by folks that have been through too many security escalations.)
> Let's not create any new ways for industrious hackers to attack Unsafe.

Oh, alright.  It was such a tidy solution, though.  :-)

Andrew.