RFR: 8255349: Vector API issues on Big Endian

Mon Oct 26 15:35:13 UTC 2020

On Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:00:05 GMT, Richard Reingruber <rrich 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!

Thanks for the reviews!

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