On 02/17/2015 11:00 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 02/17/2015 09:39 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> 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. > > They'll all be visible as ByteBuffer methods, which should be enough > for application code, shouldn't it? I'm not sure how much sense it > makes to put them into java.lang.Integer etc.
You'll still have to allocate a wrapping ByteBuffer object to use them. I expect that makes them unattractive in many cases. Hmm, maybe I should propose a patch for DataInputStream and see how it's received. :-) -- Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
