[PATCH] 8202414: Unsafe crash in C2

[Andrew Haley]

On 09/10/2018 04:59 PM, Schmidt, Lutz wrote:
> To my understanding, putInt() is not designed for unaligned accesses. Even "worse", it relies on the store address to be at least 4-byte aligned. That's what I learn e.g. from http://www.docjar.com/docs/api/sun/misc/Unsafe.html. And that's the reason why your code (sometimes) destroys the length field of the ArrayObject header.

Exactly: user error, don't do that. The doc is clear, I think.

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