RFR: 8254231: Implementation of Foreign Linker API (Incubator) [v18]

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 14:18:33 GMT, Vladimir Ivanov <vlivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with 10 additional commits since the last revision:
>> 
>>  - Merge pull request #7 from JornVernee/Additional_Review_Comments
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>>    Additional review comments
>>  - Revert System.java changes
>>  - Set copyright year for added files to 2020
>>  - Check result of AttachCurrentThread
>>  - Sort includes alphabetically
>>  - Relax ret_addr_offset() assert
>>  - Extra space after if
>>  - remove excessive asserts in ProgrammableInvoker::invoke_native
>>  - Remove os::is_MP() check
>>  - remove blank line in thread.hpp
>
> I made a pass over hotspot code. Overall, it looks good. Some comments follow.

I've just merged against master - which now contains the foreign memory API changes that this JEP depends on. I believe reviewing the changes should now be easier, as only the relevant changes should be presented in the "File Changed" tab.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/634