New candidate JEP: 434: Foreign Function & Memory API (Second Preview)

[Gavin Ray]

Hooray!

By any chance, will there be a new release of the Panama 20ea JDK and
jextract binaries as well?
I've had quite some difficulties getting jextract on 20 built and it'd be
swell to rebase some of the work I've done on the more recent API changes.

On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 2:30 PM Mark Reinhold <mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
wrote:

> https://openjdk.org/jeps/434
>
>   Summary: Introduce an API by which Java programs can interoperate with
>   code and data outside of the Java runtime. By efficiently invoking
>   foreign functions (i.e., code outside the JVM), and by safely accessing
>   foreign memory (i.e., memory not managed by the JVM), the API enables
>   Java programs to call native libraries and process native data without
>   the brittleness and danger of JNI. This is a preview API.
>
> - Mark
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