[foreign-memaccess] RFR 8228444: Add common value layout constants

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Fri Jul 19 17:42:36 UTC 2019


On 19/07/2019 18:22, Jorn Vernee wrote:
> I'm not sure I love the names either... 'BYTE_X_BE' seems to 
> reminiscent of a Java (or C) byte. How about `V8_BE`, `V16_LE`, etc... 
> ('V' standing for 'Value')? 

On this - I have some preconceived aversion to the letter V. As soon as 
I see it I think "void". I think I've read too much bytecode :-)

But that's why I was trying to avoid it.

Maurizio



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