On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:27:58 GMT, Roger Riggs <rri...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> The new usages that are driving this change would be better served by a 
> method dedicated to creating latin1 strings from a caller provided byte 
> array. The JavaLangAccess shared secret interface is already overused, but it 
> is cleaner, more maintainable, and fit for purpose to add a method than to 
> contort the exception handling as proposed.

We have to be very careful with proposals like this as it means code outside of 
java.lang having access to the underlying bytes. I think other alternatives 
needs to be explored to avoid this and related concerns.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16209#issuecomment-1768937914

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