[foreign-memaccess+abi] Withdrawn: 8270376: Finalize API for memory copy

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:49:06 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This patch ties up some loose ends with the MemoryCopy API, and it also prepares the ground for some other related refactorings in this area.
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> The meat of this patch is represented by the various changes in MemoryCopy, where all methods were renamed to simply `copy`, and the length parameter (now called `elementCount`) is always moved to the end.
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> I've also simplified naming of parameters, as I think distinguishing between `index` and `offset` is enough (e.g. an array has an index, a segment has an offset).
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> You will see that, at the very end of the class, three more copy methods have been added, which deal fully in terms of segments. I have also moved the complex layout-based memory segment copy operation (which does the swap) as a static method in this class, as I believe the static form makes the method more regular and usable.
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> I've made some changes to our uses of `copyFrom` in the linker, to use the new methods in `MemoryCopy` when the copy operation was performing slicing in the source/target segment, which I think makes the code more readable. Of course these changes are completely optional and could be omitted as well.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/568