[foreign-abi] [Rev 01] RFR: 8239784: Circular initialization causes C_XXX constants to be null

[Athijegannathan Sundararajan]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 16:34:07 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> See the bug for a complete description. Essentially, the problem is that 
>> 
>> public static void main(String[] args) {
>>     System.out.println(MemoryLayouts.WinABI.C_CHAR);
>>     System.out.println(MemoryLayouts.C_CHAR);
>> } 
>> 
>> Will print 
>> 
>> b8
>> null
>> Because of a circular dependency between the constants.
>> 
>> The fix is to extract the constants that the platform specific classes depend on into a separate, shared class, which removes the circular dependency. (This fix was suggested by Sundar)
> 
> The pull request has been updated with 1 additional commit.

Looks good!

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Marked as reviewed by sundar (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/26