[foreign-memaccess] [Rev 01] RFR: JDK-8243284: Remove Foreign class

[Athijegannathan Sundararajan]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:19:06 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The Foreign class is currently used for 3 methods:
>> 
>> * withSize, which takes an unchecked address and gives it a size
>> * asUnconfined, which takes an existing segment and turns it into an unconfined segment
>> * asMallocSegment, which takes an unchecked address and converts that into a segment which can be closed, and where
>>   closed is mapped into "free"
>> 
>> This patch replaces all these with this method:
>> 
>> static MemorySegment ofNativeUnsafe(MemoryAddress addr, long bytesSize, Thread owner, AutoCloseable cleanup, Object
>> attachment)
>> Which is then moved directly into MemorySegment - so that we can garbage-collect the Foreign class.
>> 
>> I've also made some changes on the JDK property - new name is simply "jdk.foreign" and I now made sure that it cannot
>> be bypassed with a simple static initializer.
>
> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   * simplified API to take Runnable instead of AutoCloseable
>   * renamed all occurrences of "unsafe" with "restricted" (e.g. as in "restricted foreign")
>   * cleaned up the code which performs the restricted access check

Marked as reviewed by sundar (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/122