Dan Smith

@tajila, @pshipton: please see the resolution of https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319310. There had been an assumption that writes to char/byte/short fields would truncate the int value, but that hadn't been spelled out. JVMS...

I would not recommend integrating until https://github.com/openjdk/valhalla/pull/1389 is done. At that point, there will be a large number of tests to experiment with, and after seeing if/how conveniently they can...