Vladimir, Aleksey, thanks for the reviews.
Current Unsafe::getCharUnaligned Java implementation isn't fully optimized by C2: it never constant folds such loads from char fields. C2 matches the types of a load and a location and does constant folding only if they match. For getCharUnaligned it sees a load of a short value, but the field is of type char.Does the same affect putCharUnaligned?
No, the logic is specific to unsafe loads. Best regards, Vladimir Ivanov
