RFR: 7903606: Move layout and function descriptor generation closer to code builders [v3]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:13:50 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Not sure here - this function is meant to follow pointers until a function type is found. This method seems to do that?
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> I was under the impression that this should only find function types for these 2 cases:
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>    void (*cb)(void)
>    void cb(void)
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> In which case we want to generate a functional interface. The old code also doesn't seem to follow typedefs for instance, but the new code does. This seems like a behavior change.

Yes, it's a behavior change, but when I wrote the new code, it seemed to me that the old behavior was missing certain cases where we wanted to generate a functional interface accessor?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/pull/156#discussion_r1423034435