Pointer/Scope API questions

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 08/01/2020 11:38, Ty Young wrote:
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> On 1/8/20 5:09 AM, sundararajan.athijegannathan at oracle.com wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>>> Ah, no. Works now.
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>>> 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?
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>> No. It is not a bug. You've to explicitly add "incubator" modules for 
>> compilation as well as for runtime.
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> TIL.
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> Just noticed though that while the Memory Access API works, the 
> jextract API fails because of javax.tools's JaveFileObject from the 
> java.compiler module.
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> My compiler/runtime --add-modules argument looks like:
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> --add-modules jdk.incubator.foreign,jdk.incubator.jextract,java.compiler
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> It is also required in module-info.java. Am I missing something here?

Uhm - java.compiler should be available w/o extra flags... what code are 
you trying to run?

Maurizio

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>> -Sundar
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