[foreign-memaccess] [Rev 01] RFR: Add MemorySegment::fill

[Paul Sandoz]

On Wed, 13 May 2020 15:43:59 GMT, Chris Hegarty <chegar at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi,
>> 
>> As part of feedback on the Foreign Memory API (when experimenting with
>> its usage internally in the JDK), a small number of potential usability
>> enhancements could be made to the API. This is the second such.
>> 
>> This change proposes to add a new method:
>>   MemorySegment::fill
>> 
>> Which fills a value into the given memory segment. Fill can be useful to
>> initialize or reset the memory of a segment, similar(ish) to memset.
>> 
>> There are obviously different ways to provide such functionality, e.g.
>> accepting a fill value with a bit width greater than 8 bits, but on
>> balance this single method will likely satisfy the majority of simple
>> use-cases. Other more advanced initialization scenarios would likely be
>> served better from an interaction with the Vector API, or some such.
>
> Chris Hegarty has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   review comment: testFillWithNull -> testFillNull

Marked as reviewed by psandoz (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/161