RFR: JDK-8300783: Consolidate byteswap implementations [v13]

Tue Feb 7 07:38:44 UTC 2023

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:29:41 GMT, Justin King <jcking at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I am not 100% sure of XLC, it should generate a single store instruction. Getting a copy of the old XLC on AIX (not the clang-based one) doesn't seem easy.

Why do we care about the old XLC?  It doesn't support C++11/14, so only the newer clang-based version is usable
with our current code base.  Unless you were going to propose backporting this, which seems dubious to me but
not my call.

> Poke.

Working on it...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12114