[foreign-abi] [Rev 01] RFR: 8241017: Enhance AllocationScope to support "unbounded" mode

[John Rose]

On Mar 13, 2020, at 3:04 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.java.net> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps one day we will have a way to create aligned arrays in the heap, in
> which case we might be able to add that functionality back.

I believe this is likely to happen as a consequence of building
out support for hardware vectors.  Some platforms prefer
them to be stored with strong alignment.