[12] 8193822: Remove unused newDirectByteBuffer and truncate methods from buffer classes

[Henry Jen]

That’s true, current use case is for Pointer returned from native call but not those allocated with Scope. We will need extra work on this.

Just that without this method, I would like to know what other approaches would be possible. This to us is like a direct replacement for JNI NewDirectByteBuffer call. 

Cheers,
Henry

> On Aug 8, 2018, at 11:32 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:
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> I think the case of going from Pointer -> ByteBuffer will require more work because of scoping e.g. what if the Pointer goes out of scope freeing up the memory but the ByteBuffer is still being used?
> 
> Paul.
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> Not that I know of. If we need to put it back we need a new issue and I’ll take care of it. Sorry for the complication.
>> 
>> Brian
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>> On Aug 8, 2018, at 10:24 AM, Henry Jen <henry.jen at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> I actually used this method in panama, is there a replacement? Line 194 at
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>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/panama/dev/file/d7a12ed2faf9/src/java.base/share/classes/java/foreign/memory/Pointer.java
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