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

[Henry Jen]

On Aug 8, 2018, at 1:30 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 08/08/2018 21:25, Henry Jen wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Can you add what you need in panama repo after it get sync'ed up from jdk/jdk ?
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Definitely, I can restore what we needed for now and continue evolve from there.

Cheers,
Henry