RFR JDK-8141491: Unaligned memory access in Bits.c

[Coleen Phillimore]

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On 11/25/15 2:19 PM, Alexander Smundak wrote:
> Please take a look at
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~asmundak/8141491/jdk/webrev.00
> that fixes the problem.
>
> It utilizes the ability of some (GCC and Clang) to declare data
> alignment explicitly.
> I have verified it works on x86_64 Linux by running
> jdk/test/java/nio/Buffer/Basic.java test
>
> I need a sponsor.
>
> Sasha