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Kieran FarrellRoger Riggs
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8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID
Reviewed-by: alanb, rriggs, jpai
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src/java.base/share/classes/java/util/UUID.java

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import jdk.internal.util.ByteArrayLittleEndian;
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* A class that represents an immutable universally unique identifier (UUID).
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* A class that represents an immutable Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID).
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* A UUID represents a 128-bit value.
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* <p> There exist different variants of these global identifiers. The methods
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* of this class are for manipulating the Leach-Salz variant, although the
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* constructors allow the creation of any variant of UUID (described below).
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* <p> This class is primarily designed for manipulating Leach-Salz variant UUIDs,
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* but it also supports the creation of UUIDs of other variants.
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* <p> The layout of a variant 2 (Leach-Salz) UUID is as follows:
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