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

Thu Oct 27 21:00:07 UTC 2022

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.

[1] - https://openjdk.org/jeps/434

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Commit messages:
 - Merge branch 'master' into PR_20
 - Merge pull request #14 from minborg/small-javadoc
 - Update some javadocs
 - Revert some javadoc changes
 - Merge branch 'master' into PR_20
 - Fix benchmark and test failure
 - Merge pull request #13 from minborg/revert-factories
 - Update javadocs after comments
 - Revert MemorySegment factories
 - Merge pull request #12 from minborg/fix-lookup-find
 - ... and 6 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/78454b69...ac7733da

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10872/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10872&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8295044
  Stats: 10527 lines in 200 files changed: 4754 ins; 3539 del; 2234 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10872.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10872/head:pull/10872

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