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

Jorn Vernee jbvernee at xs4all.nl
Fri Jul 19 17:55:42 UTC 2019


Ah, I see :) - Could also spell it out fully, perhaps that is most 
unambiguous:

    `VALUE_8_BE`

Jorn

On 2019-07-19 19:42, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> 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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