[foreign] RFR: 8225552: typedef can interfere with primitive classes

[Henry Jen]

Does that mean we OK with this webrev or we want to pursue other options. For example, one simple way is to add an option to list classes in java.lang/java.foreign should be fully qualified names.

Cheers,
Henry

> On Jun 12, 2019, at 9:18 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> OK - I agree that for nested types there's not much we can do in this case.
> 
> Maurizio
> 
> On 12/06/2019 16:11, Henry Jen wrote:
>> Yes, the nested Byte. I should have attach the error message into the bug report to make it clear.
>> 
>> WARNING: symbol twoShorts is not found in any library
>> java.lang.RuntimeException: In memory compilation failed: /com/example/exports_lib.java:50: error: incompatible types: Pointer<java.lang.Byte> cannot be converted to Pointer<com.example.exports_h.Byte>
>>         _theLibrary.func($arg0, out);
>>                                 ^
>> /com/example/exports_lib.java:54: error: incompatible types: Pointer<java.lang.Long> cannot be converted to Pointer<com.example.exports_h.Long>
>>         return _theLibrary.twoShorts(s, out, rv);
>>                                              ^
>> Note: Some messages have been simplified; recompile with -Xdiags:verbose to get full output
>> 2 errors
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Henry
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 12, 2019, at 7:41 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 12/06/2019 14:59, Henry Jen wrote:
>>>> the Byte is defined in the same source code, and will be considered before java.lang.Byte.
>>> What do you mean? Are you maybe referring to a nested type declaration with name 'Byte' ?
>>> 
>>> Maurizio
>>> 
>>> 
>>>