8219014: (bf) Add absolute bulk put methods which accept a source Buffer

[Brian Burkhalter]

> On Jul 4, 2020, at 8:11 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02/07/2020 21:15, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>> I have attached a specdiff to the CSR [1].
>> 
> This method does overlap a bit with MemorySegment but I think it's okay.  The wording in the javadoc is good. The existing absolute operations use "index" rather than "offset" so I think you'll have to rename the parameters for the source region to "srcIndex" and "srcLength" to keep the naming consistent.
> 
> Minor nit in the patch is that the naming for the parameters to the non-public putBuffer are also inconsistent. Also would be good to keep the style @param/@return/@throws consistent rather brining a different style into the templates.

Will improve as suggested.

> There aren't any tests in webrev.02, are these coming for the next round?

Yes. I wanted to ascertain that this would go forward before doing more work.

Brian
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