RFR: 8308293: A linker should expose the layouts it supports [v4]

Mon May 22 17:05:55 UTC 2023

On Mon, 22 May 2023 14:34:32 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> LGTM. Are there any additional types we might consider apart from the basic ones and `size_t`? Maybe one for an address pointing at `errno`?

I think there is a certain gravitational pull towards keeping the set of guaranteed canonical layouts as minimal as possible. In that sense pointer to errno seems not to meet the bar IMHO. (also note that one could always ask the captureStateLayout, and figure out how to express the errno type from there).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14037#issuecomment-1557585319