RFR: 8295044: Implementation of Foreign Function and Memory API (Second Preview) [v6]

[Paul Sandoz]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 15:00:02 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR contains the API and implementation changes for JEP-434 [1]. A more detailed description of such changes, to avoid repetitions during the review process, is included as a separate comment.
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>> [1] - https://openjdk.org/jeps/434
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> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Make memory session a pure lifetime abstraction

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/package-info.java line 103:

> 101:  * the memory session associated with the segment being accessed has not been closed prematurely.
> 102:  * We call this guarantee <em>temporal safety</em>. Together, spatial and temporal safety ensure that each memory access
> 103:  * operation either succeeds - and accesses a valid location of the region of memory backing the memory segment - or fails.

Suggestion:

 * operation either succeeds - and accesses a valid location within the region of memory backing the memory segment - or fails.

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