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[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 31/03/2020 23:39, Ty Young wrote:
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> On 3/31/20 8:47 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
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>> yeah - but we can add a more general one which will work for any size 
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> I'm guessing by a unique padding constable attribute, right?
Not really - easier. PaddingLayouts are a special class (not exposed 
because it's package private) - we can just do an instanceof :-)
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> I don't know if it's on your giant TODO list already but could all the 
> constant MemoryValue(s) be given some too? For example, Windows.C_INT 
> could have a constable attribute "TYPE" with a value of "INT" and a 
> "PLATFORM" with a value "WINDOWS".
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> Standard attributes would be useful!

Yeah - some would be useful; the one that I find the most interesting 
would be to attach a 'preferred carrier' to a layout (e.g int.class) so 
that we can infer carriers from layouts. Others are possible too - note 
that native layouts should already have a standard ABI type attached to 
them. Perhaps attaching the ABI name could make sense too

Maurizio

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