RFR: 8349503: Consolidate multi-byte access into ByteArray

Per Minborg pminborg at openjdk.org
Thu Feb 6 14:36:14 UTC 2025


On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 23:41:19 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> `MethodHandles.byteArrayViewVarHandle` exposes checked multi-byte access to byte arrays via VarHandle. This larger access speeds up many operations, yet it cannot be used in early bootstrap, and as a result, people tend to use `Unsafe` which can threaten memory safety of the Java Platform.
> 
> To promote the safe use of multi-byte access, I propose to move the checked implementations from VarHandle to ByteArray to allow earlier use and reduce maintenance costs. In addition, ByteArrayLittleEndian is consolidated, and now the access methods are distinguished by BO (byte order) / BE (big endian) / LE (little endian) suffixes to indicate their access features.

test/jdk/jdk/internal/util/ByteArray/Types.java line 82:

> 80:         byte[] arr = new byte[arrayLen];
> 81: 
> 82:         assertThrows(NullPointerException.class, () -> orderedReader.get(null, 0, true));

I suggest breaking out the invariant tests in a separate test.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23478#discussion_r1944834882


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