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

[John Rose]

Yep.

I’m happy with either add or addOffset, very slight preference to the latter.

Longer names feel too bulky to me for such a basic operation.

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Probably should be MemoryAddress addOffset(long offset) (+0.01)
> 
>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 3:22 PM, Jim Laskey <james.laskey at oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> +0.99
>> 
>>> On Jan 8, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> Proposal - let's just have:
>>> 
>>> long offset()
>>> 
>>> MemoryAddress add(long offset)
>>> 
>>> where the offset in add is allowed to be negative.
>>> 
>>> Deal?
>>> 
>>> Maurizio
>>> 
>> 
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