[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: Merge master [v2]

[J. Duke]

> Hi all,
> 
> this is an _automatically_ generated pull request to notify you that there are 110 commits from the branch `master`that can **not** be merged into the branch `foreign-memaccess+abi`:
> 
> The following file contains merge conflicts:
> 
> - make/test/BuildMicrobenchmark.gmk
> 
> All Committers in this [project](https://openjdk.org/census#panama) have access to my [personal fork](https://github.com/openjdk-bot/panama-foreign) and can therefore help resolve these merge conflicts (you may want to coordinate who should do this).
> The following paragraphs will give an example on how to solve these merge conflicts and push the resulting merge commit to this pull request.
> The below commands should be run in a local clone of your [personal fork](https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/skara#Skara-Personalforks) of the [openjdk/panama-foreign](https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign) repository.
> 
> 
> # Ensure target branch is up to date
> $ git checkout foreign-memaccess+abi
> $ git pull https://github.com/openjdk/panama-foreign.git foreign-memaccess+abi
> 
> # Fetch and checkout the branch for this pull request
> $ git fetch https://github.com/openjdk-bot/panama-foreign.git +143:openjdk-bot-143
> $ git checkout openjdk-bot-143
> 
> # Merge the target branch
> $ git merge foreign-memaccess+abi
> 
> 
> When you have resolved the conflicts resulting from the `git merge` command above, run the following commands to create a merge commit:
> 
> 
> $ git add paths/to/files/with/conflicts
> $ git commit -m 'Merge master'
> 
> 
> 
> When you have created the merge commit, run the following command to push the merge commit to this pull request:
> 
> 
> $ git push https://github.com/openjdk-bot/panama-foreign.git openjdk-bot-143:143
> 
> 
> _Note_: if you are using SSH to push commits to GitHub, then change the URL in the above `git push` command accordingly.
> 
> Thanks,
> J. Duke

J. Duke has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 1109 additional commits since the last revision:

 - Merge branch 'foreign-memaccess+abi' into 143
 - Improve exception messages and simplify LayoutPath
   
   Reviewed-by: jvernee
 - Add missing canonicalLayouts to PPC64 and s390 linkers
   
   Reviewed-by: pminborg
 - 8316196: Use hexadecimal form for address outputs in java.lang.foreign
   
   Reviewed-by: jvernee
 - Merge master
 - Merge master
 - 8315917: Passing struct by values seems under specified
   
   Reviewed-by: mcimadamore
 - Split long throws clauses in `MemorySegment` javadoc
   
   Reviewed-by: jvernee
 - 8315769: Add support for sliced allocation
   
   Reviewed-by: jvernee
 - Fix javadoc issues in MemorySegment::copy
   
   Reviewed-by: jvernee
 - ... and 1099 more: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/compare/94ae2198...bb535411

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/887/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/887/files/94ae2198..bb535411

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=panama-foreign&pr=887&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=panama-foreign&pr=887&range=00-01

  Stats: 7447 lines in 270 files changed: 5398 ins; 1161 del; 888 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/887.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign.git pull/887/head:pull/887

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/887