Reading binary data

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 30/10/2019 20:29, Ty Young wrote:
> As an API user I would much rather have the APIs being integrated with 
> one another rather than completely separate APIs. Spending hours 
> trying to figure out how to read the data -only to use the incorrect 
> way that seems to return a valid value but in actuality isn't- isn't 
> going to be fun. 

I think there is a misunderstanding here on what these API are meant to be.

The memory access API is a low level API, it sits in the 
foreign-memaccess branch; that's what my talk (which you might have seen 
on youtube) speak about. It's meant to be a general off-heap API, with 
focus on safety and performances - kind of a replacement for 
Unsafe::get/putInt and friends.

The Pointer API is what's available in the 'foreign' branch - and does  
what it says on the tin: it provides a Java abstraction which models a C 
source pointer type. The Pointer API is for language interop; the memory 
access API is lower level (in fact you can build the Pointer API on top 
of the memory access API).

I'm sorry to hear your frustration in using the API (I assume the 
Pointer API?) but w/o understanding more of what you are trying to do, 
it's gonna be hard for us to offer any help or guidance.

Cheers
Maurizio