[foreign-memaccess] RFR 8224993: Add Unsafe support for MemoryAddress (again)

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Thu May 30 17:12:31 UTC 2019


My understanding is that sun.misc.Unsafe is available via the 
jdk.unsupported module - which people can rely upon when writing modular 
code. The jdk.internal Unsafe is just not exported, so you will have to 
burst through module boundary checks in order to access it from outside 
the JDK.

Maurizio

On 30/05/2019 17:09, Jorn Vernee wrote:
> I wanted to ask about the addition of the APIs to sun.misc.Unsafe last 
> time, but got side-tracked by the test build error and then forgot :/. 
> I had assumed sun.misc.Unsafe would not be updated going forward? 
> What's the policy on this? 


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