[foreign] jextract, distilled

[Mark Hammons]

Hi,

The jextract API sounds very interesting and would help my project greatly. 
The rest would too. Looking forward to testing this out someday.

~Mark

On Friday, November 22, 2019 5:14:44 PM CET Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> Hi,
> as we got foreign memory access and foreign function access on a much
> more solid footing --- using VarHandle and MethodHandle, respectively
> --- I thought it was time to look again at jextract and see how we could
> make these new primitives play a more central part in the extraction
> process. The writeup below captures my thinking on this topic:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/jextract_distilled.html
> 
> Cheers
> Maurizio