RFR: 8290059: Do not use std::thread in panama tests [v5]

[Thomas Stuefe]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:34:49 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch removes the use of std::thread from the `java.lang.foreign` tests, and switches to the OS specific thread APIs, in order to change things such as the stack size on some platforms where this is required in the future (see the JBS issue).
>> 
>> This is done by adding a small header-only library that exposes a function to run code in freshly spawned threads (`run_async`).
>> 
>> Testing: Running the affected tests on platforms that implement the linker.
>
> Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   run_in_new_thread_and_join

Looks still good.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9599