[8u-dev] RFA: 8178047: Aliasing problem with raw memory accesses

[David Buck]

Hi!

May I please have approval to push this backport to 8u-dev?

bug report:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8178047

JDK 9 push:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/b7690ac63aa5

proposed JDK 8 change:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dbuck/8178047_jdk8_ver01/

code review of backport:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-compiler-dev/2017-July/026725.html

Cheers,
-Buck