RFR: 8340205: Native linker allows MemoryLayout consisting of only PaddingLayout [v5]

Mon Oct 7 14:53:38 UTC 2024

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 16:35:18 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR prevents sequence layout with padding to be used with the Linker.
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> Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Reword doce

These rules talk about GroupLayout, and use the term "follow" for group members. But surely this is only true for structs, not unions? I don't really understand why unions should allow PaddingLayout inside themselves at all.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21041#issuecomment-2397151115