On Wed, 17 May 2023 22:08:57 GMT, Paul Sandoz <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one
>> additional commit since the last revision:
>>
>> Tweak javadoc
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/foreign/Linker.java line 219:
>
>> 217: * <ol>
>> 218: * <li>the alignment constraint of {@code G} is set to its <a
>> href="MemoryLayout.html#layout-align">natural alignment</a>;</li>
>> 219: * <li>the size of {@code G} is a multiple of its alignment
>> constraint;</li>
>
> Do you think this is a constraint that will hold across all linker
> implementations?
All "native linkers" as the text says. Other linkers (e.g. not for C) might
obey other rules. These rules are basically constraining struct layouts to
what can come out of a native compiler in the absence of pragma pack directives.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14037#discussion_r1197121074
