[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8268743: Require a better way for copying data between MemorySegments and on-heap arrays

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 09:42:14 GMT, Uwe Schindler <uschindler at openjdk.org> wrote:

> To call the new static MemorySegment.copy() method, I still need to wrap the byte[] array, so I should merge in THIS pull request? From looking at your repository it does not seem to have the HeapMemorySegment SMALL change.

Leave alone this pull request, and just work off the branch I pointed out, which contains the static method. The static method just takes two segments, two offsets (in bytes) and a length, it's like System.arrayCopy.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/560