[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8305087: MemoryLayout API checks should be more eager [v2]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:32:39 GMT, Per Minborg <pminborg at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Update src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/GroupLayout.java
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>>   Co-authored-by: Jorn Vernee <JornVernee at users.noreply.github.com>
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> test/jdk/java/foreign/TestLayoutPaths.java line 219:
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>> 217:                 ValueLayout.JAVA_CHAR.withBitAlignment(8).withName("1"),
>> 218:                 ValueLayout.JAVA_FLOAT.withBitAlignment(8).withName("2"),
>> 219:                 ValueLayout.JAVA_LONG.withBitAlignment(8).withName("3")
> 
> Maybe there should be an alias for `withBitAlignment(8)`? E.g. `JAVA_LONG.withoutAlignment()`.

good suggestion - but I think outside the scope of this PR

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/824#discussion_r1151793371