RFR: 8295044: Implementation of Foreign Function and Memory API (Second Preview) [v22]

[Per Minborg]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:34:43 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR contains the API and implementation changes for JEP-434 [1]. A more detailed description of such changes, to avoid repetitions during the review process, is included as a separate comment.
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>> [1] - https://openjdk.org/jeps/434
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> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add `since` tag in Module/ModuleLayer preview methods

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/MemorySegment.java line 163:

> 161:  * segment is derived from the address of the original segment, by adding an offset (expressed in bytes). The size of
> 162:  * the sliced segment is either derived implicitly (by subtracting the specified offset from the size of the original segment),
> 163:  * or provided explicitly. In other words, a sliced segment has <em>stricter</em> spatial bounds than those of the original segment:

Strictly, a sliced segment can have the *same* spatial bounds as the original segment.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10872