[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8308858: FFM API and strings

[Christoph Läubrich]

On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 18:25:33 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Moreover, C more or less requires that a string, whether expressed as char* or wchar_t* cannot contain any element in the array that is a terminator char. 

Why not then using two method:

- get/set`CString`
- get/set `WString`

that both accept a generic char-set and let the user choose a suitable one as the *name* of the charset do not really matter much (as long as both sides use the same byte -> char).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/836#issuecomment-1576196469