[foreign] proposal - addressOf

[Jorn Vernee]

Sounds good! I think `addressOf` is intuitive, and is different enough 
from `elementPointer` to not be confusing.

Do we also need to have a super interface for these C carriers? (the 
addressOf method could be put there for instance).

Jorn

Maurizio Cimadamore schreef op 2019-02-27 16:36:
> Hi,
> in light of feedback from [1] and [2], I'd like to propose that all C 
> carriers:
> 
> Pointer
> Array
> Struct
> Callback
> 
> provide an 'addressOf' method which returns a Pointer to X, where X is
> the original carrier. This would also mean renaming the current
> Struct::ptr to Struct::addressOf. Good? Bad?
> 
> [1] -
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2019-February/004319.html
> 
> [2] -
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2019-February/004626.html