RFR: 8255349: Vector API issues on Big Endian

[Richard Reingruber]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:46:07 GMT, Martin Doerr <mdoerr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Several jdk/incubator/vector tests are failing with stack overflow due to endless recursion on Big Endian platforms. E.g. Int64VectorLoadStoreTests (see bug for stack trace).
> Endianess in defaultReinterpret is currently hard coded and not checked.
> 
> In addition, VectorReshapeTests.java is failing due to incorrect size conversion for Big Endian in the test code (castByteArrayData).

Looks good to me. Thanks!

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Marked as reviewed by rrich (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/840