[foreign-jextract] RFR: 8261906: Improve jextract support for virtual functions [v3]
Maurizio Cimadamore
mcimadamore at openjdk.java.net
Tue Feb 23 16:15:03 UTC 2021
> This patch add support for function pointer calls. Whenever jextract encounters a function pointer variable (be it a global variable, or a struct field), it will additionally emit code to _call_ the function pointer - by means of a static wrapper around a virtual method handle.
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> The implementation is relatively straightforward, although there is some duplication in the code that is being emitted. I played with this a bit, to see if duplication could be removed, but I ended up with a single routine to generate wrappers which worked across the axis { virtual, non virtual } x { struct, global } - which in the end I found too complex for my taste (note that, e.g. when we're inside a struct, the logic to get the virtual address depends on what else is generated inside the struct, so there's a lot of ad-hocness).
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> For these reason I ended up with separate emit function for virtual wrappers (e.g. I did not reuse the code for native functions) - the code which emit virtual function wrappers is also overridden in StructBuilder. My sense is that if we move the code to use text blocks, the duplication will be much less problematic.
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> In OutputFactory, I cleaned up things a bit - since I realized that support for valist doesn't work - this is now removed. I will file a followup issue to add proper VaList support, both in downcalls and upcalls.
Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with three additional commits since the last revision:
- Consolidate code in OutputFactory to reuse FunctionInfo factory
- Add records to pass multiple information and simplify signatures of builders
- Remove Constant.MethodHandle from ConstantBuilder
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Changes:
- all: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/456/files
- new: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/456/files/7e6ce78c..21a24496
Webrevs:
- full: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=panama-foreign&pr=456&range=02
- incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=panama-foreign&pr=456&range=01-02
Stats: 526 lines in 6 files changed: 178 ins; 274 del; 74 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/456.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign pull/456/head:pull/456
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/456
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