On Fri, 10 May 2024 10:06:55 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is the implementation changes for JEP 471.
> 
> The methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for on-heap and off-heap access are deprecated 
> for removal. This means a removal warning at compile time. No methods have 
> been removed. A deprecated message is added to each of the methods but 
> unlikely to be seen as the JDK does not generate or publish the API docs for 
> this class.
> 
> A new command line option --sun-misc-unsafe-memory-access=$value is 
> introduced to allow or deny access to these methods. The default proposed for 
> JDK 23 is "allow" so no change in behavior compared to JDK 22 or previous 
> releases.
> 
> A new test is added to test the command line option settings. The existing 
> micros for FFM that use Unsafe are updated to suppress the removal warning at 
> compile time. A new micro is introduced with a small sample of methods to 
> ensure the changes doesn't cause any perf regressions ([sample 
> results](https://cr.openjdk.org/~alanb/8331670-results.txt)).
> 
> For now, the changes include the update to the man page for the "java" 
> command. It might be that this has to be separated out so that it goes with 
> other updates in the release.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 0f3e2cc3
Author:    Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/0f3e2cc334e5926d53bbbce22e4a6bfeb2752140
Stats:     1234 lines in 8 files changed: 1150 ins; 5 del; 79 mod

8331670: Deprecate the Memory-Access Methods in sun.misc.Unsafe for Removal

Reviewed-by: mcimadamore, jpai, pminborg

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19174

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