RFR: 8308293: A linker should expose the layouts it supports [v2]

[Paul Sandoz]

On Wed, 17 May 2023 18:18:03 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch adds an instance method on `Linker`, namely `Linker::canonicalLayouts` which returns all the layouts known by the linker as implementing some ABI type. For instance, if I call this on my machine (Linux/x64) I get this:
>> 
>> 
>> jshell> import java.lang.foreign.*;
>> 
>> jshell> Linker.nativeLinker().canonicalLayouts()
>> $2 ==> {char16_t=c16, int8_t=b8, long=j64, size_t=j64, bool=z8, int=i32, long long=j64, int64_t=j64, void*=a64, float=f32, char=b8, int16_t=s16, int32_t=i32, short=s16, double=d64}
>> 
>> 
>> This can be useful to discover the ABI types supported by a linker implementation, as well as for, in the future, add support for more exotic (and platform-dependent) linker types, such as `long double` or `complex long`.
>
> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Tweak javadoc

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/Linker.java line 219:

> 217:  * <ol>
> 218:  * <li>the alignment constraint of {@code G} is set to its <a href="MemoryLayout.html#layout-align">natural alignment</a>;</li>
> 219:  * <li>the size of {@code G} is a multiple of its alignment constraint;</li>

Do you think this is a constraint that will hold across all linker implementations?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14037#discussion_r1197102015