[foreign] RFR: Add support for layout resolution

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

LayoutResolver method  addRoot could be private.

+1

-Sundar

On 24/05/18, 6:00 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Hi,
> during last week changes, I've left behind some parts related to 
> layout symbolic name resolution (e.g. Unresolved layout).
>
> This patch adds that; support is very simple, e.g. an Unresolved 
> layout is resolved by looking at its 'name' annotation, and looking 
> that up inside a shared map/dictionary held by the binder.
>
> This allows to simplify quite a few tests.
>
> I also had to make few tweaks to the ABI classes to be able to handle 
> unresolved layouts.
>
> Webrev:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/layout_resolver/
>
>
> Cheers
> Maurizio
>