RFR: 8303073: (bf) Temporarily reinstate private DirectByteBuffer(long, int) constructor

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 14:30:10 GMT, Claes Redestad <redestad at openjdk.org> wrote:

> We have a dependency on the renaissance benchmark suite for performance regression testing, which in turn has a dependency on a version of Spark that calls a private constructor that was recently chaned. To facilitate ongoing regression testing we want to temporarily put back a constructor with the old signature.

Marked as reviewed by alanb (Reviewer).

I don't mind if this is temporarily re-instated but we somehow need to get a bug submitted to Apache Spark on this.  Their JBS doesn't have public signup so we can't do it.

We should create a JBS to remove this constructor so it doesn't get forgotten.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12717