RFR: 8295044: Implementation of Foreign Function and Memory API (Second Preview) [v5]

Mon Nov 7 20:09:27 UTC 2022

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 14:59:27 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Bring windows CallArranger in sync with panama repo
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> I have incorporated additional API changes, described in this document:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/session_arenas.html
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> The main change is that `MemorySession` is now a pure lifetime abstraction and no longer implements `AutoCloseable`/`SegementAllocator`. Instead a new abstraction, called `Arena` should be used for deterministic deallocation use cases. This change allows several simplifications on the `MemorySession` API, as there's no more need to support non-closeable views.

@mcimadamore looks like your latest merge also undid the changes from you `b98febf` commit again

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10872