[foreign-abi] RFR 8237899: Add support for scoped allocation

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 29/01/2020 03:59, Michael Zucchi wrote:
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> sweet, nice addition
Thanks :-)
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> any change of a segmentScope() call?

Sorry - I don't follow?

Maurizio

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> On 28/1/20 5:44 am, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Hi,
>> after having programmed a quite a bit with both the old and new 
>> jextract bindings, I noted a mismatch (which was recently pointed out 
>> by Michael too); in C local variables are just... variables allocated 
>> on stack. If you need a pointer to them, you can just use C's 
>> dereference operator (&) and be done.
>>
>> In Panama-ized code, going from a regular variable (e.g. an int) to a 
>> variable that can be dereferenced (e.g. a MemoryAddress containing an 
>> int) is quite
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