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

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/02/2019 20:17, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>
> Here is an updated version which removes the absolute put() method 
> which accepts a source buffer:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/5029431/webrev.04/
>
> This version uses IOOBEs and not Buffer*flowExceptions for the cases 
> where the supplied parameters would provoke an out of range access. 
> Once we have consensus on this I will update the corresponding CSR 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8212619.
>
This plan, and javadoc, looks good to me.


> I created a separate issue to track the potential effort to reinstate 
> the removed method later:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8219014
>
Splitting this one out seems okay with me too.

-Alan