API review of VarHandles

[Peter Levart]

Hi Paul,

I found a typo (which was probably caused by unconscious influence from 
jigsaw ;-). Search for "Java Memory Module"...

Regards, Peter

On 01/21/2016 11:42 PM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is a request to review the VarHandles API. The code reviews and pushes will occur separately, and flow through the hs-comp repo, most likely from the bottom up first with Unsafe changes.
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> The specdiff can be found here:
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>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/varhandles/specdiff/overview-summary.html
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> (Note that specdiff renders some aspects of JavaDoc incorrectly, so just ignore any such quirks.)
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> A consensus on the set of access mode methods proposed by Doug was previously discussed and reached.
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> For the moment please ignore the following methods on MethodHandles: byteArrayViewVarHandle; and byteBufferViewVarHandle. It is necessary to revisit that functionality w.r.t. alignment and proposed enhancements to ByteBuffer (in discussion on valhalla-dev).
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> Paul.
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