[foreign] RFR 8211006: Add API points to support by-value semantics for structs and arrays

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

Looks good

-Sundar

On 21/09/18, 8:47 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> As written in the issue summary (see for more details):
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> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211006
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> We need API points to perform deep copy of structs/arrays, which would 
> allow developers to easily mimic what happens when operating on 
> struct/array struct fields.
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> I also did a minor tweak on References.ofArray, as the setter was 
> redundantly creating an Array object instead of just copying.
>
> Webrev:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/8211006/
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> Cheers
> Maurizio
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