RFD: JDK-8221477, JDK-8221397, JDK-8221696, JDK-8224974

[Andrew Haley]

On 11/19/19 3:51 PM, Gil Tene wrote:
> As a rule, any in-version changes to the public Java SE APIs, including
> the addition of new methods, are a “don’t do this” sort of thing. In the
> extremely rare cases where they are necessary (e.g. security driven)
> a rev to the spec (and often to the TCKs) is required.

I don't think we need to do that. As I understand it, we can make the changes
to jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe without breaching anything. We can use these
Unsafe methods in an external library, and we can do the mapping itself
in a library too.

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