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

Mon Oct 7 15:51:43 UTC 2024

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 15:32:53 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Does this restacking make things clearer?

I really like this new definition.

To what extent do these rules determine the compatibility of FFM calling conventions with the C calling convention? If I understand correctly, all layouts accepted by the linker must comply with the C calling convention, but must not allow all the cases that C allows?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21041#issuecomment-2397297069