A value layout. A value layout is used to model the memory layout associated with values of basic data types, such as integral types (either signed or unsigned) and floating-point types. Each value layout has a size, an alignment (expressed in bytes), a byte order, and a carrier, that is, the Java type that should be used when accessing a memory region using the value layout.

This class defines useful value layout constants for Java primitive types and addresses. The layout constants in this class make implicit alignment and byte-ordering assumption: all layout constants in this class are byte-aligned, and their byte order is set to the platform default, thus making it easy to work with other APIs, such as arrays and java.nio.ByteBuffer.