Pointer/Scope API questions

[Ty Young]

>>
>> BTW, is there something wrong with the memaccess-jextract branch? 
>> I've compiled it, enabled preview features, and added the 
>> jdk.incubator.foreign and jdk.incubator.jextract modules but get an 
>> exception when attempting to run the classes at runtime:
>>
>>
>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
>> jdk/incubator/foreign/SystemABI
>>     at 
>> org.goliath.panamamemtest.PanamaMemTest.main(PanamaMemTest.java:30)
>> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
>> jdk.incubator.foreign.SystemABI
>>     at 
>> java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:602)
>>     at 
>> java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
>>     at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:523)
>>
>>
>> Maven 3.6.2 with release set explicitly to Java 15.
>>
>>
>> The same goes for the jextract module. Given that I can require the 
>> module and import the classes I'm a bit confused as to why it's doing 
>> this. The jmods are visible in the JDK builds so... yeah.
>>
> Are you also adding `--add-modules 
> jdk.incubator.foreign,jdk.incubator.jextract` when running? I was 
> seeing a similar error when I forgot to do that.


Ah, no. Works now.


Is it supposed to throw an exception there though? The modules are apart 
of the JDK and preview features are enabled so I don't understand why 
the extra step of adding the modules at runtime is being required here. 
Is it a bug?


>
> Jorn
>
>>> Maurizio
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