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

[Jorn Vernee]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 16:07:55 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 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.

> 
> 
> Looks like we have some unused imports?

Thanks for catching this. I had just integrated the PR, so I'll create another one to clean up the imports and some
other general cleanups.

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