Fwd: State of the Isthmus

[Samuel Audet]

I know I'm repeating myself, but I'm still trying to drive the point 
home that it's too bad there is still pretty much nothing about C++...

Samuel

On 05/08/2018 09:20 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> FYI
> 
> Maurizio
> 
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     State of the Isthmus
> Date:     Tue, 8 May 2018 13:19:00 +0100
> From:     Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
> To:     panama-spec-experts at openjdk.java.net
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I've posted a new document here:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/panama-binder-v3.html
> 
> This document attempts to capture the state of the Java vs. native
> interop in a single and centralized place, and is organized into 3
> sections: there's a small intro which is used to outline the reference
> architecture of our solution - e.g. a binder which take some native
> bundles, consisting of interfaces + metadata and turns them into
> concrete implementation, which can then be poked by user code wanting
> access to native features.
> 
> Then there's a section covering layouts - first layout are presented as
> a pseudo API, then a language syntax will also be discussed, so that we
> will be able to associate layout description to interfaces using
> annotations. This section is relatively language agnostic (as layouts
> are language agnostic).
> 
> The last section is about the problem of mapping C types to Java
> carriers; as such, we zoom into the problem of C interop. We outline
> some principles which should govern this mapping, and then walk through
> the various features of the C language, and try to find, for each of
> these, the best way to model it in Java.
> 
> Even though the document bears my name, I'd like to point out that this
> work is the result of countless discussions among the members of the
> Panama team - I'd like to thank everybody who contributed to these
> discussion, either directly or indirectly.
> 
> In the upcoming weeks, we will create a new branch in the Panama repo
> (initially a child of the 'nicl' branch) and start working on the
> branch, by implementing the concepts described in this document. This
> document will also be updated to reflect significant changes in the
> binder API - as such, I believe this document will be very useful for
> anybody wanting to write a tool targeting the Panama infrastructure.
> 
> Cheers
> Maurizio
> 
>