[16]RFR(S):8249092:InternalError: a fault occurred in a recent unsafe memory access operation in compiled Java code

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/09/2020 05:11, David Holmes wrote:
> On 3/09/2020 1:49 pm, Wang Zhuo(Zhuoren) wrote:
>> David, Thank you very much for the explanation.
>> The original crash indeed happened in a third party code using Unsafe to 
>> handle unaligned data.
>> So you mean that it is the third party code's bug, we should not fix it 
>> in JVM, right?
> 
> Right. Unsafe is not a supported API and is by definition unsafe. If you 
> use it and it crashes then you need to change your code.

I agree. I hindsight, I should probably not have approved 8246051. I'm happy
that it should be backed out.

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