Panama feedback

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Mon Mar 30 23:50:23 UTC 2020


On 30/03/2020 23:59, Ty Young wrote:
> Forgot an API addition suggestion:
>
>
> It would be nice if utility static methods were provided to check if a 
> ValueLayout was, for example, padding bits or a Pointer. I already 
> have a isPaddingBits() as part of my abstraction but I think this is 
> something that can and should be provided via Panama.
>
A padding layout is not a value layout?

But yes, there is an impedance mismatch in the API right now in that 
padding layouts have no way to be tested - I think a predicate is in 
order here.

Maurizio



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