RFR: 8344168: Change Unsafe base offset from int to long

[Glavo]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2024 05:32:34 GMT, Shaojin Wen <swen at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The type of the Unsafe base offset constant is int, which may cause overflow when adding int offsets, such as 8343925 (PR #22012). 8343984 (PR #22027) fixes most of the offset overflows in JDK, but ArraysSupport and CRC32C are still unfixed.
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> @liach proposed the idea of ​​changing the Unsafe base offset to long, which is a complete solution to the Unsafe offset overflow. After discussing with @liach, I submitted this PR to implement @liach's idea.

I'm concerned that such a change could have unintended consequences, and perhaps deprecating them and providing new long constants would be a better option.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22095#issuecomment-2476528184