[foreign] RFR: cleanup Pointer API

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 15/05/18 17:44, Sundararajan Athijegannathan wrote:
>
> * Runtime class could be final and package-private. All static helpers 
> methods could be package-private as well - because HeaderImplGenerator 
> in the same package creates method handles on those methods.
good point, I'll make some experiments
>
> * Pointer.toString, .copy methods: "public" removed. Usually in APIs, 
> we write "public" explicitly - even though interface methods are 
> public by default, right?
Nope - look at Collection.java :-)
>
> +1 other than that.
>
> -Sundar
>
> On 15/05/18, 8:08 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Hi,
>> in preparation for the changes to the pointer API outlined in [1], 
>> here's a cleanup that removes the methods from the Pointer interface 
>> that are only required to support code generation.
>>
>> These methods are now moved into a new class, called RuntimeSupport. 
>> I've tweaked the HeaderImplGenerator class to perform indirect access 
>> to these method, through a bunch of static MH fields (this is to 
>> avoid access errors due to module boundaries).
>>
>> Webrev:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/pointer-cleanup/
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
>>