[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8307253: Make FunctionDescriptor::toMethodType an instance method of Linker

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Tue, 2 May 2023 14:07:40 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This patch moves `FunctionDescriptor::toMethodType` as an instance method of `Linker`. This allows linker implementations to be more opinionated on how the function descriptor -> method type conversion should behave.

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/foreign/abi/aarch64/CallArranger.java line 483:

> 481:                             = storageCalculator.structStorages((GroupLayout) layout, forHFA);
> 482: 
> 483:                     for (StorageCalculator.StructStorage structStorage : structStorages) {

This change is not strictly required, but I was getting weird errors when building javadoc from IntelliJ w/o it. Since patterns in for-each are going away anyways, I thought perhaps we could just take care of this.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/830#discussion_r1182602393