On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:41:33 GMT, Jim Laskey <jlas...@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.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/jimage/ImageHeader.java line 226:
> 
>> 224:         ByteOrder altByteOrder = bb.order() == ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN
>> 225:                 ? ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN : ByteOrder.BIG_ENDIAN;
>> 226:         bb.flip();
> 
> Don't you just want to rewind here?

Hello Jim, you are right `rewind()` would be a better API to use here.

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

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