[foreign] RFR duplicates in named layouts have to be reported as error

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 28/05/18 09:37, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
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> On 28/05/18 07:39, Sundararajan Athijegannathan wrote:
>> Isolated Structs will work if there are no name definitions or 
>> references in its layout. If there are Unresolved name references in 
>> its layout, then there has to be a 'context' in which the names are 
>> defined/resolved. The context cannot be entire Java process as it 
>> currently is! Two issues with the current code: 
> I agree with all you say. The only thing I'm disagreeing with is the 
> fact that the context has to be the @NativeHeader annotation, as that 
> suggests an header-centric nature that was never intended to be part 
> of the design.
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> Other, more explicit ways to define the context include an explicit 
> annotation which list all the classes where dependent layout can be 
> found. I think I'd like something like this better. Example (names TBD):
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> @NativeStruct("[$(b)](a)")
> @Friends(B.class)
> interface A {
>     B b();
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> @NativeStruct("[$(a)](b)")
> @Friends(A.class)
> interface B {
>     A a();
> }
Now that I have expressed this more explicitly, another idea emerged - 
what if we assumed that, if no annotation is provided, the context is 
the outermost class? That will work neutrally with both struct and 
header interfaces...

Maurizio
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