RFR (S) : 8014362 : Need to expose some processor features via Unsafe interface

[David Chase]

> On 2013-05-10, at 5:36 PM, Aleksey Shipilev <aleksey.shipilev at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Aha. Ok, so the flag then. I would say go through the JNI like
>> AtomicLong does to catch that flag without contaminating the Unsafe
>> without a good reason.

The problem with doing it the way AtomicLong does it is that I would need to add an entrypoint to jvm.h.
Isn't that somewhat more public and official than adding it to Unsafe?

David