[JDK-6341887] RFR: Patch V3: java.util.zip: Add ByteBuffer methods to Inflater/Deflater

[Paul Sandoz]

> On Mar 2, 2018, at 8:07 AM, David Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> The third... and hopefully final... version of this patch is attached.
> It is the same as V2, however it also uses
> Reference.reachabilityFence() defensively on buffers.  This may be
> necessary because there are code paths which may allow such buffers to
> be GCed after their address is acquired but before the native code
> successfully is able to read it.
> 
> The online version of this patch is visible at [1].
> 

I have not been tracking this patch closely, but the use of Reference.reachabilityFence looks good to me.

Paul.

> [1] https://github.com/dmlloyd/openjdk/commit/zlib-bytebuffer-v8
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