[foreign] RFR: add binder support for panama array carriers

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

And this is another iteration which turns BoundedArray::copyTo/From into 
static methods

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/array_carrier-v3/

Maurizio


On 25/05/18 18:35, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Slightly updated webrev which hoists the MH creation in 
> BoundedArray::copyTo/From
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/array_carrier-v2/
>
> Maurizio
>
>
> On 25/05/18 18:26, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Hi,
>> this patch removes binder support for Java array carriers and 
>> rewrires array support to use the Panama Array class.
>>
>> To allow interop from Java arrays and back the following API points 
>> have been added:
>>
>> Array<Integer> nativeArray = ...
>> int[] ia = nativeArray.toArray(int[]::new);
>>
>> And, the reverse operation is handled by Scope, by having a form of 
>> native array allocation which takes a Java array initializer:
>>
>> Array<Integer> newNativeArray = 
>> scope.allocateArray(NativeTypes.INT32, ia);
>>
>> This seems to work pretty well in terms of usability. Under the hood, 
>> the methods BoundedArray::copyFrom/To use MethodHandles to avoid 
>> boxing of elements.
>>
>> I've removed a lot of code that had to do, directly or indirectly, 
>> with Java array accessors generated by the binder.
>>
>> Webrev:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/array_carrier/
>>
>> Cheers
>> Maurizio
>>
>>
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