[foreign-memaccess+abi] Integrated: 8273905: Foreign API refresh

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 16:39:11 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> As outlined in [1], there are areas of the foreign API we'd like to improve upon, such as:
> 
> * dereference: there is a mismatch between API points which create segments (which take a layout) and dereference API points, which do not take layouts
> 
> * role of `MemoryAddress`: in Java 17, `MemoryAddress` has become a stateful carrier, which is attached to a scope. This is inconvenient, as in most cases, a memory address is just a raw pointer that arises when interacting with native code.
> 
> * resource scopes: the API for scopes has too many flavors to pick from, many of which overlap. The fact that scopes and segment allocators are unrelated forces clients to introduce ad hoc conversions from scopes to allocators, and library developers to add overloads. Finally, the API for acquiring scopes doesn't work well with try-with-resources, and could also be simplified. 
> 
> I will add separate comments to explain how the API has changed to resolve the above issues.
> 
> [1] - https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2021-September/014946.html

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 831e75bc
Author:    Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/commit/831e75bcb2eff79be1b2fb743aea9a2a2560cbd8
Stats:     13419 lines in 164 files changed: 4841 ins; 6309 del; 2269 mod

8273905: Foreign API refresh

Reviewed-by: uschindler, psandoz

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/576