RFR: 8213411: JDK-8209189 incorrect for Big Endian (JVM crashes)

[Erik Österlund]

Hi,

In my patch for 8209189 I assumed that the following struct containing a 
bit field using 3 bits, would be packed to one byte:

struct IsUnloadingStruct {
   unsigned int _is_unloading:1;
   unsigned int _unloading_cycle:2;
};

Turns out though that the size of this 3 bit bitfield is typically 4 
bytes, causing trouble on big endian machines. The compilers can be 
tamed to turn this to a byte (as expected) by using struct packing.

So the two most obvious solutions are either
1) Make a struct packing macro, and trust the compilers won't mess up then.
2) Do manual bit fiddling because we do not trust compilers.

Martin convinced me to go with #2.

Bug:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213411

Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~eosterlund/8213411/webrev.00/

Running a bunch of tests while waiting for review.

Thanks,
/Erik