[8u] RFR(XXS): 8165231: java.nio.Bits.unaligned() doesn't return true on ppc

[Sean Coffey]

Sounds good Volker. Good catch.

regards,
Sean.

On 13/09/2016 13:09, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> thanks a lot for the fast response. I've updated the bug entry as
> requested and will push the change - maybe with the following
> potential improvement:
>
> @Hiroshi: also maybe not that performance relevant, I think we should
> we also fix sun/security/provider/ByteArrayAccess.java which contains
> the same construct:
>
>      // Return whether this platform supports full speed int/long memory access
>      // at unaligned addresses.
>      // This code was copied from java.nio.Bits because there is no equivalent
>      // public API.
>      private static boolean unaligned() {
>          String arch = java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged
>              (new sun.security.action.GetPropertyAction("os.arch", ""));
>          return arch.equals("i386") || arch.equals("x86") || arch.equals("amd64")
>              || arch.equals("x86_64");
>      }
>
> Regards,
> Volker