[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8266627: CLinker allocateMemory, freeMemory implementation should not use default lookup

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Thu, 6 May 2021 18:07:32 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch removes the workaround on Windows which requires loading msvcrt.dll.
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>> The solution is to create (Java side) a memory segment and fill it with function pointers on the VM side.
>> This way, Java code can look up VM functions easily. I've moved this support onto a different class, as the approach might, in the future, be required for other VM functions.
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> src/java.base/share/native/libjava/VMFunctions.c line 27:
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>> 25: 
>> 26: #include <stdlib.h>
>> 27: #include <assert.h>
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> Curious; why is this assert.h include needed? (usually assert.h conflicts with hotspot's own assert)

No reason, I realized that I had it at some point but then cleaned up code... it's a leftover

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/527