[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Request for review [XS]: The XRender backend fails to render any glyphs on 64-bit Big-endian architectures

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi Volker,

> I've found and fixed a problem of the XRender pipeline on 64-bit
> Big-endian architectures which leads to the effect that all AWT/Swing
> applications will run as expected but won't actually display any
> character glyphs at all! This seems to be a "day-one" bug which still
> exists in both, JDK7 and JDK8 but probably didn't pop up until now
> because the XRender backend wasn't enabled by default. This has
> however changed recently in JDK8.

Thanks for fixing this long-standing bug, it is indeed a day-one issue.


> ... and review the change

I don't think I can act as an official reviewer, however as the author
of the code I am very happy with the fix as it is (with 80-char line
limit).
Thanks also for the detailed explanation - all my questions were
answered before they arose :)

Thanks and regards, Clemens