[foreign] RFR 8218153: Read/Write of Value layout should honor declared endianness

[Henry Jen]

On Feb 26, 2019, at 3:49 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 26, 2019, at 3:19 PM, Henry Jen <henry.jen at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Also added a test  and localizeLayout() for group layouts, and a Util method when we need to convert no-endian to explicit endianness.
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> If localizeLayout is useful as a public API point it should be on the interface.
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> If not, it should be package-private or static in Util.
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> In the present form, it seems like implementation is poking irregularly out of the API.
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I was considering this as well, I think it is useful, and should be probably part of Layout. Current implementation is simply try to limit exposure because Util is internal.

Cheers,
Henry