On 24/02/15 23:20, John Rose wrote: > On Feb 24, 2015, at 7:49 AM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com > <mailto:a...@redhat.com>> wrote: >> >>> There will be only one runtime Unsafe sub-type ever observed in a >>> particular VM. >> >> Oh, that's very nice. > > That doesn't help with B accesses on L platforms and vice versa.
It wasn't supposed to, but OK, I guess we can extend it to do that. Byte reversal was never handled at this level before and I'm not at all sure it should be. I'll have a look. > Having an optional boolean parameter (gating reverseBytes) will help. > > Also, it makes Unsafe non-final, which frankly gives me the willies. > (Technical term, used by folks that have been through too many security > escalations.) > Let's not create any new ways for industrious hackers to attack Unsafe. Oh, alright. It was such a tidy solution, though. :-) Andrew.
