src/share/classes/java/lang/Byte.java

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rev 6091 : 7088952: Add size in bytes constant "BYTES" to primitive type wrapper types
Summary: Adds a constant BYTES to each of the primitive wrapper classes (Byte, Character, Double, Float, Integer, Long, Short) with the calculation Primitive.SIZE / Byte.SIZE already made.
Reviewed-by: smarks, darcy

*** 492,499 **** --- 492,507 ---- * * @since 1.5 */ public static final int SIZE = 8; + /** + * The number of bytes used to represent a {@code byte} value in two's + * complement binary form. + * + * @since 1.8 + */ + public static final int BYTES = SIZE / Byte.SIZE; + /** use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.1. for interoperability */ private static final long serialVersionUID = -7183698231559129828L; }