[foreign-abi] [Rev 01] RFR: JDK-8242061: AllocationScope is too general

[Jorn Vernee]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 22:56:01 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch restricts allocation scope to work only on native allocations. This restriction allows us to lift the size
>> limitations from unbounded allocation scopes (as we can always fallback on a MemorySegment.allocateNative which
>> guarantees correct alignment).
>
> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Tweak test to also check alignment of allocatd blocks
>  - * Fix allocation limit for case where standalone segment is created (limit has to take into account worst case with
>      alignment)
>    * Add test for big allocations

Looks good to me

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Marked as reviewed by jvernee (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/93