[foreign] RFR: 8225630: Tolerate unsupported type

[Henry Jen]

Any comments on this?

Cheers,
Henry

> On Jun 12, 2019, at 12:07 PM, Henry Jen <henry.jen at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Another short webrev[1] to make allow jextract go through when encounter unsupported types.
> 
> Basically for all unsupported type, we are going to generate a unresolved layout and use the UnknownType as carrier type. Reference UnknownType should cause failure at runtime, while the UnknownType class itself is an indication this function/setter/getter should not be used.
> 
> Cheers,
> Henry
> 
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/panama/8225630/0/webrev/