On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:19:32 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review for this change which proposes to fix the issue 
> reported in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8206890?
> 
> The `jlink` command allows a `--endian` option to specify the byte order in 
> the generated image. Before this change, when such a image was being 
> launched, the code would assume the byte order in the image to be the native 
> order of the host where the image is being launched. That would result in 
> failure to launch java, as noted in the linked issue.
> 
> The commit in this PR, changes relevant places to not assume native order and 
> instead determine the byte order by reading the magic bytes in the image 
> file's header content.
> 
> A new jtreg test has been added which reproduces the issue and verifies the 
> fix.

While running tier testing, one existing test showed that I hadn't taken into 
account SecurityManager checks in the new code that I had added. I have now 
fixed that part and pushed an update to the PR.

There's one additional unrelated test failing (`TestMaxCachedBufferSize`) in a 
odd way and I'll investigate it separately.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11943

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