RFR: 8340205: Native linker allows MemoryLayout consisting of only PaddingLayout [v13]

[Vladimir Kozelkov]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:15:28 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Though, I'm still wondering if we don't want to reject that at the layout API level instead. i.e. have withByteAlignment throw an exception for PaddingLayout

I still don't understand why this wasn't done from the start, so I fully approve of this idea.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21041#issuecomment-2491299715