Oddity in JDK 8

[Jean-François Savard]

Hi,I've noticed something odd in the JDK8 source code. I've asked the question on StackOverflow in the hope someone could answer, but it seems like no one is able to give me the right answer.However, since the question interested me a lot and seemed to interest a lot of people (as you can see on the post), I've decided to dig more into this. Unfortunately, I have not been able to come to a conclusion that would satisfy me.Would you please have a look at this question (it is well detailed and fast to read) : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28770822/why-is-the-size-constant-only-native-for-integer-and-long ?Feel free to answer directly on the post if whoever receive these mails have an account on StackOverflow, else you can just answer here and I will be happy to share the knowledge with others (giving you credits for sure).Best regards,Jean-François Savard.