JEP proposed to target JDK 24: 498: Warn upon Use of Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe

[Mark Reinhold]

2024/11/18 9:06:50 -0500, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> The following JEP is proposed to target JDK 24:
> 
>   498: Warn upon Use of Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe
>        https://openjdk.org/jeps/498
> 
>   Summary: Issue a warning at run time on the first occasion that any
>   memory-access method in sun.misc.Unsafe is invoked.  All of these
>   unsupported methods were terminally deprecated in JDK 23.  They have
>   been superseded by standard APIs, namely the VarHandle API (JEP 193,
>   JDK 9) and the Foreign Function & Memory API (JEP 454, JDK 22).  We
>   strongly encourage library developers to migrate from sun.misc.Unsafe
>   to supported replacements, so that applications can migrate smoothly to
>   modern JDK releases.
> 
> Feedback on this proposal from JDK Project Committers and Reviewers [1]
> is more than welcome, as are reasoned objections.  If no such objections
> are raised by 20:00 UTC on Monday, 25 November, or if they’re raised
> and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal
> [2] I’ll target this JEP to JDK 24.

Hearing no objections, I’ve targeted this JEP to JDK 24.

- Mark