5029431: (bf) Add absolute bulk put and get methods

[Brian Burkhalter]

> On Feb 14, 2019, at 7:48 AM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2019, at 5:25 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com <mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> [ Still mulling on put(index, src, srcIndex, length), partly as it's not clear if put(index, src) should be added at the same time ]
> 
> The problem I have with put(index,src) is that this would imply updating the position of ‘src’ do we’d be mixing absolute and relative operations. It would also complicate the ‘src’ == ‘this’ situation.

Barring objections to the contrary, I think I will file a separate issue to investigate adding put(index,src) and/or put(index,src,srcIndex,length) at a later date and constrain the present issue to the methods to do bulk transfers to/from arrays.

Thanks,

Brian
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