[foreign-preview] RFR: 8280527: Move jdk.incubator.foreign to java.lang.foreign [v3]

Maurizio Cimadamore mcimadamore at openjdk.java.net
Thu Jan 27 11:38:59 UTC 2022


On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:12:52 GMT, Julia Boes <jboes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> To prepare for preview, this change removes the jdk.incubator.foreign module and moves the public classes to java.base/java.lang.foreign, implementation classes to java.base/jdk.internal.foreign respectively. 
>> 
>> While here, `SystemLookup` is replaced with the method `ClassLoader::findNative` and the methods in `MemoryHandles` are moved to `MethodHandles`. The `@PreviewFeature(feature=PreviewFeature.Feature.FOREIGN)` annotation and the `--enable-preview` flag are added were needed.
>
> Julia Boes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   refactor test helper method and some cleanup

test/jdk/java/foreign/TestVarArgs.java line 68:

> 66:     }
> 67: 
> 68:     static final NativeSymbol VARARGS_ADDR = new NativeTestHelper().findNativeOrThrow("varargs");

Maybe instead of creating `newNativeTestHelper` you can extend that class (as in other cases)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/633


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