[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8310362: Improve composability of handle derived from layouts [v2]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 19:16:11 GMT, Jorn Vernee <jvernee at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The previous doc talks about deref paths at the end, but then shows an alternative way to compute the accessed address. I thought this looked conflicting, so I changed this part to talk about the simple case first.
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>> We could pull up the full blown address computation as well
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> I've uploaded a new version which attempts to improve this by merging the two paragraphs about offset computation. I'm not sure which version is better, though... Given the length of the text, I feel like we need _some_ kind of concept that refer to sections of a path which don't contain dereference path elements.

I agree that the text is still not optimal. I'd like to think about it some more, and maybe I can come up with some more concrete suggestions.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/840#discussion_r1239037888