On 02/16/2015 11:02 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 14/02/2015 22:10, Dean Long wrote: >> >> Even if linux-aarch64 always allows unaligned, checking only for >> "aarch64" is not future-proof >> because it doesn't take the OS into account. However, I really don't >> like having to enumerate >> all relevant platforms in multiple places in shared code, so I >> disagree with the existing code >> and with perpetuating the pattern. As long as the decision is in >> platform-specific code, a build-time >> decision may be entirely appropriate. > > This alignment test in Bits.java has been there for a long time (JDK > 1.4). It's technical debt that hasn't surfaces very often as it's so > rare to add architectures. If Unsafe gets a method to test the alignment > then it would be great to get Bits changed.
Hopefully it's getting less rare to add architectures! I'll do that as part of my patch. Andrew.
