RFR: 8319966: AIX: expected [[0:i4]] but found [[0:I4]] after JDK-8319882

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:18:31 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR proposes to fix a failing test on big endian architectures like AIX.

test/jdk/java/foreign/TestLayouts.java line 223:

> 221:     public void testSequenceLayoutWithZeroLength() {
> 222:         SequenceLayout layout = MemoryLayout.sequenceLayout(0, JAVA_INT);
> 223:         assertEquals(layout.toString().toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT), "[0:i4]");

Hello Per, I don't yet have experience with these APIs; do you think the implementation of `toString()` itself should perhaps be changed to return a consistent value that doesn't depend on the endianness? Or is it intentional that there is a dependency?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16672#discussion_r1393908097