RFR (XS): 8149596: Remove java.nio.Bits copy wrapper methods

[Chris Hegarty]

+1.

-Chris.

On 1 Mar 2016, at 18:48, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Mikael,
> 
> Not a Reviewer here, but it looks OK to me aside from the copyright year in the template file.
> 
> Nice to see code removed!
> 
> Brian
> 
> On Mar 1, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Mikael Vidstedt <mikael.vidstedt at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> As part of JDK-8141491[1] the native methods in java.nio.Bits were removed, and the functionality is instead provided by the VM through j.i.m.Unsafe. The Bits wrapper methods are therefore redundant and can be removed.
>> 
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149596
>> Webrev:http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mikael/webrevs/8149596/webrev.00/webrev/
>> 
>> I've run the java/nio jtreg tests and it all passes (modulo a couple of unrelated failures).
>