RFR: 7903947: Access to function pointers in structs could be streamlined

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:00:13 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > I kept trying to avoid renaming the invoker as I didn't like having the dollar sign or a prefix in the invoker, but I like the idea of having readonly/write/execute mode in the config.
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> I feel your pain. We defo went thorugh a lot of pain to remove dollars from generated code:
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> https://cr.openjdk.org/~mcimadamore/panama/jextract_changes.html
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> So, it will be a bit sad to see them coming back. Also, it will make some code more verbose compared to their C counterpart, as the C syntax can distinguish between application (`foo.x()`) and access (`foo.x = ...`).

Maybe worth thinking some more about what our options are...

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jextract/pull/287#issuecomment-3127642536