Unaligned byte access conditions resulting in (unnecessarily) poor code on the SPARC architecture. Poor results are demonstrated in e.g., java.nio.ByteBuffers.testByteBufferBulkGet10, where the code executed on SPARC uses a simplistic load-byte, store-byte approach (compared to the merged load-quad used on x86).

Code generation on SPARC could be improved by using the new (S5) support for misaligned loads/stores and improved byte copy layout for inline intrinsics.