[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8303666: Move address layout outside of ValueLayout namespace [v3]

Tue Mar 7 12:59:21 UTC 2023

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 10:31:00 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This patch moves ValueLayout.OfAddress into a toplevel class. This seems desirable since address layouts are very important in the FFM API, and also provides seadditional methods on top of `ValueLayout` to get/set a *target layout*.
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> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains four commits:
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>  - Simplify AddressLayout javadoc
>  - Merge branch 'foreign-memaccess+abi' into address_layout_move
>  - Add copyright header
>  - Initial push

Nice!

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Marked as reviewed by jvernee (Committer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/811