On 02/14/2015 01:09 AM, John Rose wrote: > These queries need to go into Unsafe. > We also need Unsafe.getIntMisaligned, etc., which wire through to whatever > second-best mechanism the platform offers.
The safe variants should go into the java.lang.Integer etc. classes IMHO. Even the JDK has quite a few uses for them (particularly the big endian variant). Putting that into Unsafe only encourages further use of Unsafe from application code. -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security