Java Value Layout Constants

Posted on November 25, 2021

This is a followup of an earlier disccussion. In the new changes slated for Java 18, the set of Java value layout constants are all byte-aligned (e.g. alignment constraints are not set). The motivation for this is mostly historical…

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