[foreign-memaccess] RFR 8234814: Eager layout size computation trips on unbound sequence layouts

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Tue Nov 26 14:46:12 UTC 2019


On 26/11/2019 14:40, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> * constants such as JAVA_INT should use native order (this is, after 
> all, the layout of an int in the VM) 

To expand a bit - we eventually would like to see these constants moved 
in the primitive wrapper classes - e.g.

MemoryLayout::JAVA_INT -> Integer::LAYOUT

in which case I think these constants should return whatever layout the 
VM thinks a Java int (in this case) has.

Maurizio



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