Native method binding

[Brian S O'Neill]

On 2024-12-18 07:31 AM, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> 
> I definitely understand what you're saying here. However, you 
> misunderstand what I'm proposing. I'm not suggesting being able to call 
> FFM directly using a plain native method. I'm suggesting being able to 
> *bind* a native method to any arbitrary `MethodHandle` that matches its 
> exact shape. Getting a matching `MethodHandle` from FFM would be the 
> user's job, not the FFM API's job. Technically it wouldn't even be 
> limited to FFM.
> 

Declaring a method as native is a legacy feature. If JNI was being 
designed today, it would almost certainly rely on user-defined 
interfaces which are backed by dynamically generated code. That same 
approach can be used for dynamically binding MethodHandles to methods.