[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8274219: Add back generic factory to create value layouts

[Jorn Vernee]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 17:07:34 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This patch adds back a factory to create value layouts in a generic way. While we cannot make the API 100% type safe, some dynamic usages can greatly benefit from this. The `Binding` class provides a good example (greatly simplified here). Also, the logic for reconstructing layouts (see `describeConstable`) becomes a lot more regular.

Marked as reviewed by jvernee (Committer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/579