[foreign-jextract] RFR: 8244128: Allocations larger than MAX_ALIGN can fail to be sliced to proper size.

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:09:44 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This patch fixes a problem where the MemorySegment resulting from an allocation was not always sliced to the requested
> size, when the allocation code was manually up-sizing the allocation in order to perform manual alignment of the
> returned MemorySegment, but the initial allocation turned out to be aligned any ways.  Thanks,
> Jorn

Looks good - good catch; I'll also add this to the RFR against jdk/jdk, since it seems a general issue

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Marked as reviewed by mcimadamore (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/136