On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 01:40:36 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.
>
> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - cleanup test - rename method and update code comment as suggested by Alan
>  - Rename KNOWN_ENDIANNESS to PLATFORM_PROPERTIES

See draft PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/14063 for a proposal

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11943#issuecomment-1555128657

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