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

[Henry Jen]

On Feb 28, 2019, at 6:00 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 01/03/2019 01:31, Henry Jen wrote:
>> A-ha, I was expecting withEndianness will make all components within a layout with any element that is no-endianness to be replaced.
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>> That means this example should work as well. So I considered this a bug and just did a jshell test to verify it.
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> No, withEndianness should NOT affect the addresee part of an address layout.
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> This was deliberate, and discussed here:
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> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2019-February/004147.html
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> (near the end)
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Yes, that I aware. And now I understand that we consider withEndianness() API as the byte swap operator, this is correct behavior.

I was considering withEndianness() simply a method to convert any non-specified endian elements into specified endianness.

Cheers,
Henry