Motivation:
OpenSslContext constructor fails with a UnsupportedOperationException if Unsafe is not present on the system.
Modifications:
Make OpenSslContext work also when Unsafe is not present by fallback to using JNI to get the memory address.
Result:
Using OpenSslContext also works on systems without Unsafe.
If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
The 'master' branch is where the development of the latest major version lives on. The development of all other versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.
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