[foreign-memaccess] RFR: 8254343: Revisit API for supporting mapped memory segments (second option) [v2]

[Paul Sandoz]

On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 17:19:35 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch contains an alternate approach to support mapped memory segment operations,
>> effectively addressing the issues described in PR/377.
>> 
>> Here, support for mapped segments is reduced to bare minimum in the public API; a mapped segment is a segment whose
>> file descriptor is set.
>> A separate helper class `MappedMemorySegments` exposes the same routines which are now provided by
>> `MappedMemorySegment`.
>
> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Improved javadoc

Marked as reviewed by psandoz (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/378