[foreign] RFR 8217380: LayoutType::ofStruct should try to resolve Struct layout

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Hi,
I've been wanting to solve this in the past, but I stumbled upon the 
fact that we could not always ensure 'eager' resolution when calling 
LayoutType.ofStruct. This is something that eventually should be fixed - 
the situations where such resolution cannot happen are always caused by 
the fact that jextract is generating cross-header symbolic references - 
this is another problem that could be addressed by switching to a 
library-per-extraction approach, where then all symbolic references will 
become self-contained.

In the meantime, your idea of adding a 'tryResolve' is a good one; I'll 
do some more tests on my side, to make sure that everything is ok, and 
then I'll approve

Cheers
Maurizio

On 19/01/2019 15:16, Jorn Vernee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review the following patch.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8217380
> Webrev: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jvernee/panama/webrevs/8217380/webrev.00/
>
> Thanks,
> Jorn