2. even if, it should not be byte b[] but byte[] b
Yeah we need to clean occurrences of this anachronistic array declaration from the JDK. I noticed a few others nearby. It's startling that a new occurrence has crept it. (Or maybe not, perhaps it was done to conform to the nearby code.)
Any volunteers to clean this up? An interesting exercise would be to write a detector for this declaration style. s'marks