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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8161720
+ * @modules java.base/jdk.internal.misc
+ * @run main/othervm -Xint UnsafeOffHeapBooleanTest 1
+ * @run main/othervm -XX:+TieredCompilation -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=3 -Xbatch  UnsafeOffHeapBooleanTest 20000
+ * @run main/othervm -XX:-TieredCompilation -Xbatch UnsafeOffHeapBooleanTest 20000
+ */
+
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import jdk.internal.misc.Unsafe;
+
+public class UnsafeOffHeapBooleanTest {
+    static boolean bool0 = false, bool1 = false, result = false;
+    static Unsafe UNSAFE = Unsafe.getUnsafe();
+    static long offHeapMemory;
+
+    public static void test() {
+        // Write two bytes to the off-heap memory location, both
+        // bytes correspond to the boolean value 'true'.
+        UNSAFE.putShort(null, offHeapMemory, (short)0x0204);
+
+        // Read two bytes from the storage allocated above (as booleans).
+        bool0 = UNSAFE.getBoolean(null, offHeapMemory + 0);
+        bool1 = UNSAFE.getBoolean(null, offHeapMemory + 1);
+        result = bool0 & bool1;
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String args[]) {
+        System.out.println("### Test started");
+
+        if (args.length != 1) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("### Test failure: test called with incorrect number of arguments");
+        }
+
+        // Allocate two bytes of storage.
+        offHeapMemory = UNSAFE.allocateMemory(2);
+
+        try {
+            for (int i = 0; i < Integer.parseInt(args[0]); i++) {
+                test();
+            }
+
+            // Check if the two 'true' boolean values were normalized
+            // (i.e., reduced from the range 1...255 to 1).
+            if (!bool0 || !bool1 || !result) {
+                System.out.println("Some of the results below are wrong");
+                System.out.println("bool0 is: " + bool0);
+                System.out.println("bool1 is: " + bool1);
+                System.out.println("bool0 & bool1 is: " + result);
+                System.out.println("===================================");
+                throw new RuntimeException("### Test failed");
+            } else {
+                System.out.println("Test generated correct results");
+                System.out.println("bool0 is: " + bool0);
+                System.out.println("bool1 is: " + bool1);
+                System.out.println("bool0 & bool1 is: " + result);
+                System.out.println("===================================");
+            }
+        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("### Test failure: test called with incorrectly formatted parameter");
+        }
+
+        UNSAFE.freeMemory(offHeapMemory);
+
+        System.out.println("### Test passed");
+    }
+}