[foreign-memaccess] RFR 8223778: Path lookup API refinements
    Maurizio Cimadamore 
    maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
       
    Mon May 13 14:43:50 UTC 2019
    
    
  
Hi,
this patch, built on top of 8223768, addresses the following issues:
* the API allows VarHandle with mismatching carrier size to be created.
* the API allows creating of boolean.class VarHandle, which is 
internally not supported
* the API allows dereference of path pointing inside Value sub-structure 
(which should not be supported)
* LayoutPath::groupElement(long) doesn't work for indexed access inisde 
Sequence
Thanks to Jorn for pointing out some of these issues.
I've also done a cleanup of the javadoc in LayoutPath, and added the 
notion of bound vs. unbound layout path. A bound layout path is a path 
we know everything of _statically_. As such we can ask question such as 
'offset'. Unbound paths have one or more access dimensions which are 
supplied at runtime.
Webrev
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/8223778/
Maurizio
    
    
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