The primary goal of this deprecation is to prepare the ecosystem for the eventual removal of sun.misc.Unsafe's memory-access methods. By highlighting their usage through compile-time and runtime warnings, developers can identify and migrate to supported replacements.
Two standard APIs, VarHandle and Foreign Function & Memory API, introduced in JDK 9 and 22 respectively, offer safe alternatives for manipulating on-heap and off-heap memory, ensuring efficiency and avoiding undefined behavior.
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