[foreign-abi] [Rev 01] RFR: 8237585: Dismantle ForeignUnsafe

[Jorn Vernee]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:47:31 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Jorn Vernee has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   Review comments
>
> Looks good. As we were discussing offline, we will need to evaluate as to whether this organization of the API points
> is the one that makes the most sense, but in the meantime I think is a much-needed change because: (a) it brings
> foreign unsafe functionality out in the public API where developers can see it (b) replaces the module-based hiding
> mechanism which is hard to workaround in IDEs and (c) puts SystemABI on same footing with other potentially unsafe
> functionalities.

@mcimadamore Yes, thanks for mentioning that.

This is probably not the final solution, but it's an improvement over the status quo.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/56