RFR: 8304265: Implementation of Foreign Function and Memory API (Third Preview) [v5]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 09:02:29 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> API changes for the FFM API (third preview)
>> 
>> Specdiff:
>> https://cr.openjdk.org/~pminborg/panama/21/v1/specdiff/overview-summary.html
>> 
>> Javadoc:
>> https://cr.openjdk.org/~pminborg/panama/21/v1/javadoc/java.base/module-summary.html
>
> Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Add example for Option::captureStateLayout

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/Linker.java line 480:

> 478:      *     Otherwise, the invocation throws {@link WrongThreadException}; and</li>
> 479:      *     <li>{@code A} is kept alive during the invocation. For instance, if {@code A} has been obtained using a
> 480:      *     {@linkplain Arena#ofShared()} confined arena}, any attempt to {@linkplain Arena#close() close}

the description of the link still says "confined"

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13079#discussion_r1143131392