RFR: 8221477: Inject os/cpu-specific constants into Unsafe from JVM

[Andrew Dinn]

HI David,

On 05/04/2019 04:54, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> This all looks good to me - thanks for making the changes.

Thank you for the corrections and improvements.

> Two nits:
> - BE was barely acceptable when used like a local variable, but now I
> think BIG_ENDIAN would be better.
> - If you don't use static import you can name the UnsafeConstants fields
> the obvious way without clashing with public fields in Unsafe.
> 
> Feel free to ignore those nits. If you do make a change no need to see
> another webrev.
Well, I changed BE to BIG_ENDIAN and it doesn't look as messy as I
thought. So BIG_ENDIAN it is.

However, omitting the static import requires UnsafeConstants.BIG_ENDIAN
at multiple mentions. That does look too cluttered for comfortable reading.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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