[foreign-memaccess] RFR 8235837: Memory access API refinements

[Jim Laskey]

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> On Jan 8, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On 08/01/2020 18:59, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Am I the only one finding the use of the 'relative' word confusing here? E.g. that "relativeTo" seems to suggest re-interpreting of same memory location, rather than a change in the addressed location. 
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> Proposal - let's just have:
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> long offset()
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> MemoryAddress add(long offset)
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> where the offset in add is allowed to be negative.
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> Deal?
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> Maurizio
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