[foreign-memaccess] [Rev 03] RFR: JDK-8241154: Clarify the role of MemorySegments

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 16:20:57 GMT, Paul Sandoz <psandoz at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Just realized that for this to work properly I need to add reachabilty fences in all the var handle code (at least,
>> possibly AB invokers need to do the same). Should I do it as part of this effort, or should I split and deal with
>> registerCleaner later?
>
> Drat, those fences are a pain. Might be easier to separate out (esp. for review purposes, i am already loosing track of
> what is going on!).

Closing this for now - we'll bring some of this stuff back in upcoming patches.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/54