[foreign] RFR 8217453: add support for member annotation scheme

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Forgot to mention: the patch passes tests on all platforms.

Maurizio

On 21/01/2019 16:52, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Hi,
> this patch implements the member-based annotation scheme described here:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/panama-annos.html
>
> (see end of document)
>
> This patch diverges from the proposal in two minor aspects:
>
> * @NativeCallback is left in place (we have bigger plans for allowing 
> callback types to be referenced by name)
> * unresolved layout grammar: the layout expression used braces - e.g. 
> ${foo}, not $(foo), to minimize confusion with layout annotations
>
> I've also took care of a couple of minor issues:
>
> * I added exclusion for the SystemHeadersTest which fails on Windows 
> if Visual Studio is not installed
> * I fixed a bunch of javadoc issues (esp. in Pointer) which prevented 
> javadoc to be generated correctly
>
> Webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/8217453/
>
> Thanks
> Maurizio
>